I think Ed Harris is a conscious screen actor, so I think it was strong, it was like he put everything together… — 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… — 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
In terms of how I work with actors, having worked so heavily on the script I have a very clear idea of… — 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
It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something… — 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
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
There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think… — 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
