Lynn Shelton Quotes

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I like the opportunity to make films.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.