Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

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

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

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

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

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

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

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.

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.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

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

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

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

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