I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write … - Peter Hedges

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I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did. I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

Peter Hedges

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.

Actors, Allow, Parts, Places, Want, Writing

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GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

Writing, Character, Ideas, Argue, Begin, Good

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.

Art, Cement, Giants, Green, Lying, Rainstorm

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.

Compassion, Fellow, Know, People, Understand, Views

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

Actor, Actors, Person, Trying, Years

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

Depressing, Eats, Nothing, Toast, Toasts