Fred Hechinger

I just really believe in movies.

— Fred Hechinger

We're all human and everyone should be treated as full humans.

— Fred Hechinger

I'd like to do a musical one day.

— Fred Hechinger

Any opportunity to reveal truth, human truth, is exciting.

— Fred Hechinger

Ridley is a limitless filmmaker.

— Fred Hechinger

A lot of people enlist in high school and grow up fighting.

— Fred Hechinger

Everyone needs care, and that doesn't take away independence.

— Fred Hechinger

I loved 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening.'

— Fred Hechinger

I find as an actor, it's such a joy to be surprised. You're sort of looking for surprise.

— Fred Hechinger

I just think the most important thing is: are you telling vital stories?

— Fred Hechinger

You know, you can really count on a monkey to surprise you as well.

— Fred Hechinger

I love those movies when they reveal humanity, and, through the context of those movies, you see who people really are.

— Fred Hechinger

I always want to surprise audiences and tell stories that are entertaining and challenging at the same time.

— Fred Hechinger

There are all these massive issues, and really life-threatening things that people in corporations need to change drastically.

— Fred Hechinger

When you're first on the call sheet, people look to you for guidance.

— Fred Hechinger

The more you make stuff that reaches people and connects with them, the easier it gets to make more things.

— Fred Hechinger

I think about the filmmakers that I've loved working with, and the ones that I want to work with, and I think…

— Fred Hechinger

I think it's very important for Ridley that his films, which are about the past or take place in the past are…

— Fred Hechinger

That's the worst feeling in movies to me, when you feel it's this rote character that's just abiding like a computer to…

— Fred Hechinger

It is truly connected to your job as an actor, and it benefits the character and the entire film to build a…

— Fred Hechinger

It's true of all of Ridley's work. He can make these huge spectacles and yet they're so concerned with the characters and…

— Fred Hechinger

There's no one way to direct a movie, other than it has to be personal, and it has to come from what's…

— Fred Hechinger

For so many years I wanted to tell stories and be an actor. So, the moment I started to get paid to…

— Fred Hechinger

I always thought great storytelling should seem spontaneous but also inevitable, like you would never expect it, but once it happens, it…

— Fred Hechinger

I'd watch 'Inherit the Wind' and I'd say, 'Oh, I want to be a lawyer.' I'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy' with my mom,…

— Fred Hechinger

When you think about a movie that you love to watch all the time, the reason that we watch 'Gladiator' so much…

— Fred Hechinger

Every period piece is made in the context of the moment, always equally trying to capture something about now through then. But…

— Fred Hechinger

Our lives are action movies, and even if it's not that we are blowing up the Death Star each time, the things,…

— Fred Hechinger

The more you are putting together the crew and the schedule, the more intimately you understand what each crew members needs to…

— Fred Hechinger

If my parents had plans, like going to a play, I would usually be included, and I didn't realize how special that…

— Fred Hechinger

Any other filmmaker would say, 'Okay, that's enough craziness.' Ridley's like, 'Yes, yes, yes, a monkey, and a donkey, and this horse.'…

— Fred Hechinger

I think that's happened throughout time in terms of how we treat villains. It's sometimes where the most interesting and seemingly troubled…

— Fred Hechinger

I watch a lot of movies. The connection to making them comes from the same person that was just obsessed watching them.

— Fred Hechinger

You know, I'll be late to catch the train, and I'll be sweating as much as you are when you're watching a…

— Fred Hechinger

When you play someone, you want to do it so fully that then the next time you could play an opposite person…

— Fred Hechinger

I always want to be taking big swings. I want to keep making things that are entertaining and challenging at the same…

— Fred Hechinger

I find I'm more moved by character and filmmaker or the group of actors than I am by genre.

— Fred Hechinger

I thought Robert Pattinson was so brilliant in 'The King.' I think he's quite comical in it.

— Fred Hechinger

When I was starting out, producers would be like, 'Whose career do you want?' I would always say Barbara Stanwyck.

— Fred Hechinger

I watched 'Fever Pitch' so many times, the DVD - I had to clean it just to keep using it.

— Fred Hechinger