Peter Hedges

I feel cool when I say I live in Brooklyn.

— Peter Hedges

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

— Peter Hedges

“Love is not a feeling.  It's an ability.”

— Peter Hedges

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

— Peter Hedges

“I have seen God and he is this girl.”

— Peter Hedges

Harold and Maude' is a film I just keep finding myself rewatching.

— Peter Hedges

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

— Peter Hedges

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

— Peter Hedges

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

— Peter Hedges

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

— Peter Hedges

So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories…

— Peter Hedges

Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?

— Peter Hedges

“A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a…

— Peter Hedges

“Tucker is on a roll. It usually takes two beers for him to like himself but tonight he only needs half a…

— Peter Hedges

If you get back into the beginner mindset, you can unearth an energy and a fire that I didn't know I could…

— Peter Hedges

I want to make a series of films of contemporary America that feel urgent and deal with sometimes-topical matters, but hopefully in…

— Peter Hedges

Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise…

— Peter Hedges

I grew up in a very loving but very broken family, and I suppose that's why I'm drawn to telling stories about…

— Peter Hedges

The greatest love I believe... the greatest love I have is for my children, but I think the greatest love probably universally…

— Peter Hedges

I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand.…

— Peter Hedges

My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a…

— Peter Hedges

I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess…

— Peter Hedges

And for better or worse, a story like 'Pieces of April' is the kind of story I'm supposed to tell. The kind…

— Peter Hedges

Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we…

— Peter Hedges

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were…

— Peter Hedges

There are sections of the film that I don't love. There are moments that really lift and elevate, and then there are…

— Peter Hedges

I once heard a story, it's probably apocryphal, but I love the notion. That a car had flipped over and the baby…

— Peter Hedges

“Joan and the Judge had gone to a Sunday brunch with friends. They would be home shortly, in good spirits probably, unless…

— Peter Hedges

I'm the lucky father to two young men. When any of your kids, and your parents feel this way about you, clearly,…

— Peter Hedges

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

— Peter Hedges

I don't know if a mother's love and a father's love is that different.

— Peter Hedges

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

— Peter Hedges

If you wanted John Gielgud to cry, he could say, 'Which eye?'

— Peter Hedges

“She loves me-she just doesn't know it yet.”

— Peter Hedges

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

— Peter Hedges

New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.

— Peter Hedges

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

— Peter Hedges

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

— Peter Hedges

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

— Peter Hedges

“Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.”

— Peter Hedges