Peter Hedges Quotes

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

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.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.

These eggs are broken. Cracked.""Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes.""Does it?""Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that, " the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.