Everyone feels a sense of ownership in creating a Lynn Shelton movie. Lynn chooses amazing people - including the crew. Every person there is committed to making the film the best it can be.
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.
I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
It's hard to make a living at independent films, at least in my experience. It can be hard to be really creatively fulfilled in some television. Between the two, I get a bit of both.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.
No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
