American - Director | October 4, 1970 -
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
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From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.
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I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
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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.
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My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
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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.
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I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
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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.
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In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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