Fred Hechinger

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

— Fred Hechinger

I'd like to do a musical one day.

— Fred Hechinger

I just really believe in movies.

— Fred Hechinger

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

— Fred Hechinger

Courting that darkness is real privilege of art.

— Fred Hechinger

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

— Fred Hechinger

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

— Fred Hechinger

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

— 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

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

— 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 swear to you, I'm not making this up, Sir Ridley Scott is a fan of 'Beavis and Butt-Head.'

— Fred Hechinger

Phil Klay wrote 'Redeployment,' which is an incredible collection of short stories.

— 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

There's sort of a dumb misconception that if a person is quieter, that means they have less to say or that speech…

— Fred Hechinger

That moment where you feel like you are really, really present and really alive, and really outside of your head and with…

— Fred Hechinger

I think when you feel a story, you have to think about every aspect of it, and RaMell experiments with every part…

— Fred Hechinger

Thelma & Louise' is one of those Ridley Scott films that I've watched over and over. I'm so in awe of those…

— Fred Hechinger

The scale that I have felt watching Ridley's movies is mirrored in the experience of making them. Everywhere you looked, there was…

— Fred Hechinger

I always find that the process becomes the product, and so, however it's designed is built to bring out and nurture and…

— Fred Hechinger

I have memories of growing up where I felt stifled by the performances of everyday life. You can tell the truth through…

— Fred Hechinger

When I think I can do the best job by acting in someone's piece, I want to do that. And when I…

— 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

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

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

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

— 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

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

I was a huge fan of 'Enlightened,' 'School of Rock,' 'Year of the Dog' - pretty much anything Mike White has done.…

— Fred Hechinger

Ridley is a limitless filmmaker.

— 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

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 surprise audiences and tell stories that are entertaining and challenging at the same time.

— Fred Hechinger

After doing one thing, I feel inspired to do something which feels like the opposite of it.

— Fred Hechinger

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

— 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