Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.