Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Geoffrey Shawn Fletcheris an American screenwriter, film director, and adjunct film professor at Columbia University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, New York. Fletcher is the screenwriter of Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire and received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on March 7, 2010. He is the first African American to receive an Academy Award for writing. In September 2010,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth4 October 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.