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 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.
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.
You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
Women have a greater verbal capacity.
There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.
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.
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.
It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
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.