“I'm the lucky father to two young men. When any of your kids, and your parents feel this way about you, clearly, when your kids find what they love to do and they throw themselves into it, and they find joy in the doing of it, and it's actually work that's honorable, and, you know, all of those things, it's a great feeling.”

American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer

Peter Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He is known for moving across several forms of storytelling, from fiction and stage work to film. His career spans writing and filmmaking, with credits in novels, plays, screenplays, directing, and producing. That range is what most clearly defines his public profile, even when the available record gives only the broad outline of his work.