Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher