Lynn Shelton Quotes

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

We like flawed people.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

Imperfection is relatable.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.