Lynn Shelton Quotes

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Filmmaking is teamwork.

I didn't know what it was going to look like or how anything was going to turn out, but the production on 'Teen Wolf' is so amazing. The way that they shoot it, edit it, and put it out there, it's really so exciting. I trust the team so much. They do such a good job.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.

Anyone that I've ever worked with, it's not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that's gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that's when it feels most natural.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.