Theodore A. Melfi is a screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on the films "St. Vincent", "Beasts of the Southern Wild", "", and "Gone Girl". He has also adapted the novel "Independence Day" into a screenplay
Theodore A. Melfi was born in New York City in 1954. He is the son of Italian-born photographer, poet, and painter Anthony Melfi, who was killed in action during World War II while serving as a U.S.
Army infantryman in the European Theater of Operations, and an actress mother, Elsie Hovick.
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.Theodore Melfi
We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.Theodore Melfi
