Peter Hedges Quotes

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

The best education in film is to make one

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

I don't make projects; I make films.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.