If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
What we love that 'The Way Back' is not subsidized, it's alive and kicking. And if I can't make the kind of… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I always thought the editor should cut the film and so I'll come in and look at the movie. Just because that's… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I love a chance to shoot real locations, because in films in the earlier days before people traveled as much, it was… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I've done a number of things that get categories closed off in a way, so when I read 'The Long Walk' by… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I think Ed Harris is a conscious screen actor, so I think it was strong, it was like he put everything together somehow in… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I always thought the editor should cut the film and so I'll come in and look at the movie. Just because that's the only… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
