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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

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

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.

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.