Peter Hedges Quotes

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

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

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I’ve always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father‘s a minister.

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Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don’t.

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There are so many films I lean on and look toward and return to that give me some guidance on how to keep moving in the world, and that’s what film does, at its best.

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

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One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

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In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher one.

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A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

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

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I took a look at my own life and realized that I was overinvesting in my kids. I realized that I had to get out of the way and let them be who they wanted to be, not what I wanted them to be.

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I feel cool when I say I live in Brooklyn.

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I grew up in a very loving but very broken family, and I suppose that’s why I’m drawn to telling stories about well-intentioned people who are doing their best – but are not always successful – in figuring out how to maneuver through this complicated, bumpy and broken world.

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So much of writing is about what characters don’t say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

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So much of life’s dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it’s really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.

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Family is paramount to me in my life, and my own comes first above everything, and that’s something universal that people can relate to.

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So, yes, I wrote a script called ‘Ben Is Back’ that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

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Pieces of April‘ was going to be a 3 to 7 million dollar film and we had three entities, two studios, and one wealthy man and they all backed out. It was quite a blow.

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There’s no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can’t be vital for a long, long time.

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

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When I did ‘Gilbert Grape,’ Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.

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The greatest love I believe… the greatest love I have is for my children, but I think the greatest love probably universally is a mother‘s love for a child.

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I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents‘ lives have been about helping people at times of crisis.

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Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That’s just a fact and it’s regrettable and it’s got to change.

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And for better or worse, a story like ‘Pieces of April’ is the kind of story I’m supposed to tell. The kind of story that makes you laugh as much as possible but also breaks your heart.

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There are sections of the film that I don’t love. There are moments that really lift and elevate, and then there are parts that feel clunkier to me. But the totality of ‘Harold and Maude’ is so much greater than maybe other films that are more perfect or look more beautiful or handle every moment more exquisitely.

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My formative years were all shaped by a mother who was very sad and had a drinking problem, while my father was lonely and angry. He was an Episcopal priest and raised four kids on his own.

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I once heard a story, it’s probably apocryphal, but I love the notion. That a car had flipped over and the baby was trapped underneath the car and the mother was thrown from the car. Then the mother lifted up the car to pull her child to safety. And I believe that my own strength comes from whom and what I love.

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I play this game with my son called Never Seen. We try to see new things every day, and we do. I don’t take that for granted.

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Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

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I’m looking, often, towards younger people, listening to how they’re working, at least they’re trying, and some of the old greats, too. Just to try to remain relevant and off-balance, but hungry and eager.

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

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I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.

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