Peter Hedges Quotes

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.

I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

It's hard writing screenplays.

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.