Lynn Shelton Quotes

American filmmaker (1965–2020)

Lynn Shelton (27 August 1965 – 16 May 2020) was an American filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor

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The genesis of the vast majority of my films is an actor as a muse that I want to work with. Humpday was Mark Duplass, Outside In was his brother, Jay Duplass, this movie was Marc Maron, who I’ve been really wanting to make a movie with for three and a half years. Then there’s other things, like a territory I want to explore or an element I want to return to, like improvisation, which I haven’t done since Your Sister’s Sister.

As a filmmaker, I really am most interested in humans and their deep desire to connect to each other. How do they get through their own lives? Where have I come and where am I now? And where do I want to go from here? It’s all of those humanistic questions.

My fascination is with relationships at their most microcosmic. The more epic, the more uninteresting the film-making becomes. It becomes about getting the perfect crane shot.

Good drama (and comedy) often comes from the simple act of placing characters in a situation that is not usual nor comfortable for them.

I want my movies to feel like you’re paratrooping into somebody’s life.