When I go home to Iowa, people assume I live in this very big anonymous place where no one knows each other… — Peter Hedges Better Copy Share Image
Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don't feel there's been any pressure for… — Peter Hedges Clear Copy Share Image
“Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.” — Peter Hedges Music Copy Share Image
When you have an intimate encounter with mortality as my family and I did with my mom's death, I took a long… — Peter Hedges Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Back Copy Share Image
I can go years without going to Los Angeles, but I think my living in Brooklyn is critical to my continuing to… — Peter Hedges Cinema Copy Share Image
Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation. — Peter Hedges Early Copy Share Image
If there's a photo of a roomful of kids I'm the one with the biggest smile or my hand over my face. — Peter Hedges Children Copy Share Image
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 Actor Copy Share Image
I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister. — Peter Hedges Always Copy Share Image
My mother, Carole Hedges, was my world until she walked out of our house when I was 7. Actually, she didn't walk… — Peter Hedges House Copy Share Image
I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance. — Peter Hedges Best Copy Share Image
There are so many films I lean on and look toward and return to that give me some guidance on how to… — Peter Hedges Best Copy Share Image
In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher… — Peter Hedges Children Copy Share Image
“He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.” — Peter Hedges Acquaintances Copy Share Image
Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers. — Peter Hedges Broken Copy Share Image
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 Great Copy Share Image
The job in every re-write is to make it harder for your characters to get the thing that they need. — Peter Hedges Get Copy Share Image
Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods? — Peter Hedges Adult Copy Share Image
People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we… — Peter Hedges Funeral Copy Share Image
So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten. — Peter Hedges About Copy Share Image
I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job… — Peter Hedges Direct Copy Share Image
I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world. — Peter Hedges Broken Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life. — Peter Hedges Embrace Copy Share Image
