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
'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.
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 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.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
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.
I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
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.
I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
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.