Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

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

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.

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 didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.