I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can… — Peter Hedges Actors Copy Share Image
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my… — Peter Hedges Autobiographical 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 Copy Share Image
I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios. — Peter Hedges Brooklyn Copy Share Image
I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
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 Audience 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 Copy Share Image
Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
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 April Copy Share Image
When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand.… — Peter Hedges Compassion Copy Share Image
I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess… — Peter Hedges Cinema 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
Pieces of April' was going to be a 3 to 7 million dollar film and we had three entities, two studios, and… — Peter Hedges April Copy Share Image
When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays… — Peter Hedges Actor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Maudlin scenes where people pour their heart out to one another? I don't want to see it. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
“A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a… — Peter Hedges 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
People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks. — Peter Hedges Audience Copy Share Image
I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating. — Peter Hedges 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 Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
“Tucker is on a roll. It usually takes two beers for him to like himself but tonight he only needs half a… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long… — Peter Hedges Discipline Copy Share Image
“No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.” — Peter Hedges Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't. — Peter Hedges Actor Copy Share Image
My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater. — Peter Hedges Cinema Copy Share Image
My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible… — Peter Hedges Character 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
Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
“Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.” — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic… — Peter Hedges Cinema 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 Copy Share Image
I grew up going to funerals and visiting people in nursing homes. I'm not as afraid of dealing with the dying as… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system. — Peter Hedges Economics Copy Share Image
