16 Peter Weir Quotes for You to Enjoy

Peter Weir

Australian Director

Born: Aug 21, 1944

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Music stops you from thinking. Peter Weir

Music You Thinking Stops

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things. Peter Weir

Work Business People Stars Security Come Look Well Bugs Houses Surveillance Quite Regularly Who Swept Things

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom. Peter Weir

Internet Girl Example Every Photograph Minutes Posts Someone Know Well Although Bedroom Who Her Two

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. Peter Weir

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. Peter Weir

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. Peter Weir

You Words Fear Become Too Way Seem Case Rather Could Put Self-Conscious Almost Ideas Understood Arrived Banal Personal Any Which Them Meaning Choices Full Many Deeply

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker. Peter Weir

You Mix Certain Filmmaker

There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to. Peter Weir

Home Frustration Wait Thought Approach Project Hung Though Something Impatient Point Could Take Had Always Contribute Just Being Where Want Which Should Unique Even Film

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. Peter Weir

Big Trees Birds Carve Got Did Stone Just Mural

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work. Peter Weir

Work Freedom Better Thought Think Suited Television Kind Would Some Directing Direction Take Jonathan Performance Piece Make Real Dialogue Very Literary Literary Work Much Film Enjoyed

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space. Peter Weir

Work People Space Stage Background Out Some Like Where Theatrical

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough. Peter Weir

Time Better Before Own Enough Mine Find See Something Given More Put Idea Like Ideas Get Often Places Actor

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form. Peter Weir

Art Think Films Added Silent Entirely More Fact Simply Know Sound Dialogue Were Art Form Than Different Form Actual

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