Peter Hedges Quotes

#1. The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

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#2. I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

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#3. The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

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#4. I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

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#5. How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

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#6. A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.

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#7. People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

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#8. I was fine till the finger, I say to myself, as I shift to reverse. You don't flip off Gilbert Grape. Let that be known.

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#9. It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

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#10. I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

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#11. I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

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#12. He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.

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#13. I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

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#14. I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

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#15. My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

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#16. You can tell the idyllic nature of a family by the upkeep of its picnic table. Ours is its own indictment. We are splintering and peeling. We rot.

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#17. God forgives you your sins."
I say right back, "And I forgive him his.

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#18. Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.

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#19. He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

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#20. I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

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#21. People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

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#22. No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.

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#23. She loves me-she just doesn't know it yet.

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#24. Who's calling?"
"Don't insult me like that," the voice says.
I stop. Was I just insulting?

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#25. These eggs are broken. Cracked."
"Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes."
"Does it?"
"Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

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#26. The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.

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#27. I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

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#28. I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

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#29. I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

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#30. There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

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#31. Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face.

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#32. I could go at any time now.

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#33. The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

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#34. I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

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#35. I can go at any time now. " -Arnie tells Becky

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#36. Love is not a feeling. It's an ability.

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#37. I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

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#38. Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

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#39. Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.

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#40. Bettering your life, getting a fresh start, the bright side. Spout these concepts daily and you will survive in Endora; you might even thrive.

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#41. I have seen God and he is this girl.

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#42. In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

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#43. My brother's costume is the exception. He looks like an American. In fact, he behaves like one. When he tried to pick up the first kid he knocked down, he smashed into several others, it snowballed, chaos ensued. My brother very much resembled America today in pretty much all things.

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#44. I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.

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#45. Yeah, some days you die.

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#46. I'm told women scream when they give birth because of the intense pain. And I think about how easily life can just slide away, like thawing ice. And how it's only the living that scream.

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#47. I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

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#48. Some people have to live while others get to sit this living thing out.

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#49. I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

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#50. Gilbert?
Some days I hate all those who know my name.

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#51. She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.

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#52. A bad dream. You were having a bad dream." "Oh", I say. "Is that what I'm having?

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