Peter Hedges Quotes

I depend on good editors and a good director.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Ever since my first film, I had more producers than scripts. And I've realised that a certain project requires a certain kind of producer for it to be made well.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

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.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

It's great, getting the scripts and working with somebody like Sam Esmail, who is such a great leader.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.