Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Thinking, Stories, Stills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Meaningful, Validation, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Character, Sometimes, Trauma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Brother, Taught, Storytelling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  School, Film, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Mother, Dream, Special

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Brutality, Film, Crime

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Plot, Driving, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Opportunity, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women have a greater verbal capacity.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Capacity, Greater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Creativity, Thinking, Use

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Taken, Healthy, Humbling Experiences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Math, Film, Investment

  "Guest Interview: Geoffrey S. Fletcher: Writer, Director of 'Violet & Daisy'". Interview with Justine Browning, www.indiewire.com. June 17, 2013.

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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

  Imagination, Humanity, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Writing, Years, Promise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Writing, Next, Scripts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Writing, Space, Astronaut

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Thinking, African American, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Age, Different, Pieces

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Thinking, Track, Guarantees

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Writing, School, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Reality, Innocence, Collide

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Stress, Two, Imagination

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Inspiration, Humanity, Stories

  "Guest Interview: Geoffrey S. Fletcher: Writer, Director of 'Violet & Daisy'". Interview with Justine Browning, www.indiewire.com. June 17, 2013.

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• You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  World, Premieres, Debut

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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