Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

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.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

The best education in film is to make one

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.