With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keeping it very simple is you might loose some of the audience because… — 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