36 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

'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.

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

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.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

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.