It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. 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 validation meaningful people I think there are many more stories still to be told about women. Geoffrey S. Fletcher stills stories thinking If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment. Geoffrey S. Fletcher investment film math My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation. Geoffrey S. Fletcher taught storytelling brother 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 film made school 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 special mother dream The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. Geoffrey S. Fletcher crime film brutality Women have a greater verbal capacity. Geoffrey S. Fletcher greater capacity I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. Geoffrey S. Fletcher collide innocence reality 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 writing years school 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 writing promise years 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 stress imagination two 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 next scripts writing Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. Geoffrey S. Fletcher trauma sometimes character I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. Geoffrey S. Fletcher astronaut space writing I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. Geoffrey S. Fletcher african-american stories thinking I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces. Geoffrey S. Fletcher pieces different age 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 track guarantees thinking 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 creativity use thinking 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 parent imagination civilization
