Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

. . . all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Popular Topics
Feelings, Book, Philosophy, Weak, Comfortable, I Like You, Math, I Miss You, Angry, Stage, Humble, Name, Mother'S Day, Alien, Smile, Songs, Creative, Disco, Education, Thought, Jesus, Music, Inspire, Town, Heart, Enthusiast, Kindly, Dance, Brain, Organization, Guru, Inspirational Life, Success, Peace And Love, Pregnancy, Positive, Humbly, Leadership, Thinking, Future, Teacher, Beauty, Life, Kids, Path Of Love, Reality, Involve, Thank You, Surprised, Hope
Lynn Shelton

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

Filmmakers, Found, Independent, Television, Work
Same Author Quotes

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

People, Want, Way, Drawn, Relationships

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.

Book, Eight, Mom, Reading, Remember, Whole

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

2006, Diverse Society, Diversity, Festival, Oddities, Society

In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

Actors, Collaborative, Intimacy, Philosophy, Real

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

Edges, Mistake, Real, Rough Edges, Weaknesses, Whitewashed
Similar Quotes