“Very much in the short term, movie theaters are going to accommodate themselves to the situation primarily in terms of what public health officials are recommending. So there will be social distancing and limited capacity. Employees will be wearing masks and gloves and there will be enhanced cleaning and sanitation and disinfecting of the movie theater. Between every screening you’ll see people disinfecting seats. You’ll see much more frequent cleaning of high-touch areas like the concession stand and doorknobs. And that’s going to be ongoing.”

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Bruce Sterling: “If there are no big events due to pandemic, and nobody’s shopping much, either, then it’s mighty hard to keep a magazine empire afloat in midair. Instead, you’ve gotta fire staffers, shut down software, hunt new business models, re-organize and remove loose ends. There is probably no looser-end in the entire WIRED domain than this weblog. So, in this extensive and self-indulgent conclusion, I’d like to summarize what I think I’ve learned by messing with this for seventeen years.”

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Kathy Fennessy: “Lynn Shelton was everything you’ve ever heard she was. Absolutely beloved by the city of Seattle. Yes, the whole damn city. She was just that kind of person. The real deal. The kind that really listened and cared about what you had to say about film, music, life. I’m devastated.”

Melanie Lynskey: “A few years ago I was doing karaoke with a group of people in Seattle when suddenly, something shifted. I thought: did they turn the lights on? Is it someone’s birthday? No, the only thing that was different was that Lynn Shelton had walked into the room. Her energy was the brightest and most beautiful thing. She radiated joy, and a deep soulfulness. She was glorious. And the work! Her films were so moving, so funny, so uniquely her films. The performances were always perfect. She never repeated herself creatively. We talked about working together many times, and I cannot express how much joy it brought me whenever we discussed it. I held onto that future collaboration like it was a diamond. I couldn’t wait. My respect for her was immense. I started to think of who I needed to text to make sure they were ok, and the list is endless. She was so close to so many people. So beloved. Such a treasure.”

Scott Macaulay: “Reading the interviews with Lynn we’ve published at Filmmaker reminded me of one of the many things I appreciated so much about her: her generosity and humility when it came to discussing her art. In discussions — here, elsewhere, and in her many festival panel appearances — she was both inspiring and compassionately transparent when it came to breaking down the evolution of her work as a director as well as her broader career encompassing both film and television.”

“Even before the madness, it was just a terrible deal no matter how you slice it. The fees are too high. Restaurant profit margins are maybe five percent on average. Then to have a delivery service charge between twenty and thirty percent is just crazy. And the way they present themselves: ‘You’re going to get so many more orders.’ A thousand orders at thirty percent off does not help.”
“Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery apps thrive?”

“Small businesses have a short window before they collapse, and there’s no possibility that the federal government’s loans will get out in the required time. It’ll hollow out L.A. Mom-and-pop landlords are weeks from liquidation, and the real estate investment trusts are looking over their shoulder, licking their chops, ready to buy property knowing prices will never be this low again. It’s an extinction event for your little neighborhood bistro but a huge business opportunity for the wealthy to come in and clean up.”

“When a woman is cast as Cinderella at a Disney park, she’s expected to maintain a certain look. Weight gain is called a ‘silhouette problem.’ It’s made quarantine difficult for some of the 100,000 employees furloughed from the Happiest Place on Earth.”

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Mindy Kaling: “Lynn Shelton loved actors and we loved her back. She was a dream on set. Her lovely, sunny energy was infectious and actors always drifted to video village between takes to be around her. She had such a quiet power and I will miss her. Rest In Peace, Lynn. Love you.”

“I was in a Lynn Shelton film when she was starting out. My hubby was a musician, and she made a bunch of music videos of his band. After I had a new baby she brought me the most amazing meal and paid for us to have a house cleaner. She is to this day, one of the kindest human beings I have ever known. My heart is broken. She lived a rich life, and she truly made this world a better place.”

Christine Vachon: “This is so tragic. An amazing filmmaker. I always wanted to work with her.”

Walter Murch: “Cinema is especially powerful because it can communicate directly with those pre-linguistic intelligences that lie within us. The question and the responsibility for filmmakers is how to harness that power for the good, because it can easily be misused. For at its best, film could supply the braided coherence ordinary life does not.”

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Lynn Shelton: “I self-generated my work, and I never went around asking permission to make it. The main reason women make inroads in independent film is that no one has to say, ‘I pick you.’ I’m not pounding on anybody’s door. I’m just making my own way. You can buy a camera for $1,500. It’s insane how easy it is to make a movie.”

“lynn shelton was the actual best. so kind and driven. a bad ass with a huge heart. always made you feel special when you were around her. and i know this is just yelling into a void but i’m sad. she was so loved by everyone around her and that is special.”

“Devastated to hear about Lynn Shelton’s passing. I looked up to her as an example of what to be. She “made it” but was still friendly enough to offer advice to those who asked. I’ll never forget how friendly you were or the words you shared with me. Rest In Peace.”

Erin Donovan: “Lynn Shelton had a great story about being nervous to jump from indie film to tv. When she booked ‘Mad Men’ she ran around on set asking crew members “do I work fast enough for tv?? You have to work so fast for tv!” And of course she received nothing but assurances. And she has since become a genuine authorial voice for tv directing across scale, genre, narrative format, etc. She would really want aspiring filmmakers to glean the lesson there, because she was also a really kind, generous and curious person.”

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Michael McKean: “I’m at a loss for words, a state Fred Willard never found himself in. My friend for 40+ years, a great comic actor who had no competition because there was only one of him. We were all so lucky. Goodbye, Fred.”

Steve Carell: “Fred Willard was the funniest person that I’ve ever worked with. He was a sweet, wonderful man.”

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John Lithgow: “Up until January, this was the golden era for actors. I didn’t have a single actor friend who wasn’t working on something. Because of the explosion of streaming content on television and a booming business in New York theater, everybody was doing something. Now, nobody’s doing anything.”

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Tom Tomorrow: “I don’t mean to piss on anyone’s parade, but looking at stuff on my computer is not a “virtual experience,” it is… looking at stuff, on my computer.”

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