Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.