Peter Hedges Quotes

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Peter Hedges

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 6, 1962

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

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Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don't feel there's been any pressure for him to live it.

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Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we acted like we were the happiest, most together family.

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Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.

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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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There was a part of me that wanted to take my place next to, you know, Debra Granik. She's such a hero for me.

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I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.

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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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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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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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Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

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I make sure when I direct that it's a very joy-based set that hopefully is filled with a lot of respect.

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Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise of those moments I try to create a safe enough space that allows the actors to operate from their own instincts. My direction is more suggestions, prompts or questions.

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I want to make a series of films of contemporary America that feel urgent and deal with sometimes-topical matters, but hopefully in a universal way.

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

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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 think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

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The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.

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

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When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

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