110 Quotes by Peter Hedges

I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.

I can go years without going to Los Angeles, but I think my living in Brooklyn is critical to my continuing to have a fairly happy life in the film industry.

My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a musician, to being an actor, to then being a writer.

You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios.

New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.

There are sections of the film that I don't love. There are moments that really lift and elevate, and then there are parts that feel clunkier to me. But the totality of 'Harold and Maude' is so much greater than maybe other films that are more perfect or look more beautiful or handle every moment more exquisitely.

Harold and Maude' is a film I just keep finding myself rewatching.

I don't know if a mother's love and a father's love is that different.

I've read both books that 'Beautiful Boy' is based on, and I can't wait to see that film. I root for that film.