Peter Hedges Quotes

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Peter Hedges

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 6, 1962

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

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When you have an intimate encounter with mortality as my family and I did with my mom's death, I took a long look at my life and I asked myself what was the one thing that I hadn't done that I had really wanted to do. And it was to write and direct a film.

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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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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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I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

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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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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 used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

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

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Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?

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The job in every re-write is to make it harder for your characters to get the thing that they need.

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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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I grew up going to funerals and visiting people in nursing homes. I'm not as afraid of dealing with the dying as maybe some other people may be.

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

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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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When I go home to Iowa, people assume I live in this very big anonymous place where no one knows each other or wants to. Truth is, I know my neighbors better in Brooklyn than I ever did in Iowa.

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I feel cool when I say I live in Brooklyn.

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