I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. Geoffrey S. Fletcher More Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher More Quotes From 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 we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people. Geoffrey S. Fletcher validationmeaningfulpeople I think there are many more stories still to be told about women. Geoffrey S. Fletcher stillsstoriesthinking If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment. Geoffrey S. Fletcher investmentfilmmath It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. Geoffrey S. Fletcher humbling-experienceshealthytaken My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation. Geoffrey S. Fletcher taughtstorytellingbrother 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 filmmadeschool My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams. Geoffrey S. Fletcher specialmotherdream The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. Geoffrey S. Fletcher crimefilmbrutality Women have a greater verbal capacity. Geoffrey S. Fletcher greatercapacity I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. Geoffrey S. Fletcher collideinnocencereality 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. Geoffrey S. Fletcher writingyearsschool 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. Geoffrey S. Fletcher writingpromiseyears 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. Geoffrey S. Fletcher stressimaginationtwo 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. Geoffrey S. Fletcher nextscriptswriting Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. Geoffrey S. Fletcher traumasometimescharacter I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. Geoffrey S. Fletcher astronautspacewriting I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces. Geoffrey S. Fletcher piecesdifferentage 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. Geoffrey S. Fletcher trackguaranteesthinking I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity. Geoffrey S. Fletcher creativityusethinking From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher parentimaginationcivilization
