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" The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Crime
Brutality
Film
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" There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity. "
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" 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. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Humanity
Live
Story
" I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
About
Breadth
Enough
" 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
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Craft
Everything
" I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Different
Crime
Love
" 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
Connections
Today
Yourself
" 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
Always
Over
Writing
" 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
Goodness
Imagination
Important
" If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Math
Women
Investment
" I think there are many more stories still to be told about women. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Stories
Still
More
" There are few films where you have women really driving the plot. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Plot
Where
Driving
" 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
Wonder
Creativity
Never
" 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
Shot
Made
" I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Go
Write
Space
" If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Humanity
Modern
Imagination
" My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Me
Storytelling
Animation
" 'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Precious
Lot
Mountain
" It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Humbling
Healthy
Down
" Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Will
Escape
Great
" 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
See
You
" 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
Will
You
Track
" You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Debut
Your
You
" 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
Down
Myself
Without
" Women have a greater verbal capacity. "
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Verbal
Capacity
Greater