Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

About Geoffrey S. Fletcher:

Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher is 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, Fletcher began shooting Violet & Daisy in New York City based on his original script as his directorial debut. It was released in a limited theatrical run in June 2013.
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I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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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There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

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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.

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I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

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You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

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It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

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I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

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'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.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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 a...

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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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My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

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Author Bio

  • NameGeoffrey S. Fletcher
  • DescriptionAmerican screenwriter
  • BornOctober 4, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Director