Peter Hedges Quotes

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

I would love to start directing. I just hope to find the right thing and, if I was afforded the opportunity, I think it would be something great. It would be really hard, but I think it would be a great privilege.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

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.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories that will move, provoke, and change people. But I became a director because I wanted to be a part of the world.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.