“I took a look at my own life and realized that I was overinvesting in my kids. I realized that I had to get out of the way and let them be who they wanted to be, not what I wanted them to be.”

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.