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
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
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.
You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
Women have a greater verbal capacity.
There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.