36 Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.