Peter Hedges Quotes

• I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

  Peter Hedges

  Compassion, Views, People

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Art, Lying, Giants

  Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Character, Play

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

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Stories, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Mother, Running, People

  Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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

  Peter Hedges

  Depressing, Toasts

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

  Peter Hedges

  People, Conversation, Audience

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, World, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Years, Trying, Actors

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Games, Play, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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

  Differences, Film, Bigs

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Jobs, Character, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Actors, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Cancer, Tolerance, Stories

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Laughter, Missing, World

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Thinking, Alive, Fantastic

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Stories

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Jobs, Long, Stories

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• 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.

  Peter Hedges

  Stories, Actors, Film

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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

  Peter Hedges

  Scripts, Economics, Studios

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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