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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

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

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

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

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

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

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

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

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