110 Quotes by Peter Hedges

Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we acted like we were the happiest, most together family.

Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.

My mother, Carole Hedges, was my world until she walked out of our house when I was 7. Actually, she didn't walk out. Alcohol walked her out.

Everything good in my life can be traced back to my mother's sobriety. She showed me that broken people can - with the help of others - turn themselves around.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

There was a part of me that wanted to take my place next to, you know, Debra Granik. She's such a hero for me.

I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.