Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher - Page 1

Women have a greater verbal capacity.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher / Screenwriter
Capacity
Greater
Verbal
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You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
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Debut
Premieres
World
Premiere
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I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
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Space
Astronaut
Outer Space
Writing
Outer
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If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher / Screenwriter
Film
Investment
Math
Women Are
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I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
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Stills
Stories
Thinking
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There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
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Driving
Film
Plot
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There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.
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Opportunity
Talent
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Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
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Character
Sometimes
Trauma
Experience Great Will
Escape
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It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
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Healthy
Humbling
Humbling Experiences
Taken
Notch
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I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
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Collide
Innocence
Reality
Interested
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I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
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African American
Breadth
Stories
Thinking
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I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
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Age
Crime
Different
Different Genres
Pieces
Unusual
Genres
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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
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Brutality
Crime
Film
Tenderness
Heightens
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher / Screenwriter
Imagination
Humanity
Might
Saves
Swallowed
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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.
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Film
Film School
Made
School
Directed
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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.
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Fifth
Guarantees
Thinking
Track
Guarantee
No Guarantee
Script
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My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
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Animation
Brother
Mythology
Storytelling
Taught
Brothers
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My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.
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Dream
Enjoyed
Investing
Mother
Special
Few Things
Showing
Underdogs
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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.
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Animated
Humanity
Inspiration
Stories
Action Film
Live Action
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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 / Screenwriter
Film School
School
Scripts
Shorts
Variety
Writing
Years
Positions
Several
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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 / Screenwriter
Devoted
Promise
Representation
Writing
Years
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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.
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Connections
Materialism
Meaningful
People
Validation
Outside
Searching
Swept
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'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 / Screenwriter
Uplifting
Mountain
Explored
Peaks
Precious
Realities
Strangely
Tops
Valley
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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.
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Quality
Imagination
Capacity
Despair
Division
Features
Goodness
Remembered
Stress
Two
Fondly
Possess
Qualities
Suspect
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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 / Screenwriter
Handle
Next
Pages
Scripts
Writing
Work Your May
Work May Your
Craft
Hundreds
Owe
Twenty
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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 / Screenwriter
Computer
Creativity
Remarkable
Thinking
Use
Wonder
Capabilities
Dynamic
Fraction
Occurs
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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 / Screenwriter
Imagination
Boundless
Civilization
Each Day
Parent
Single Parent
Advances
Inventions
Remedies
Resides
Skyscrapers
Surrounds
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