Peter Hedges Quotes

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

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.

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

I started my production house with the idea of directing one day.

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

I wanted to try directing.

I realised that I enjoyed direction while making 'DCH.' The process of putting a film together and working with the cast and crew felt good.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.