Peter Weir

I think Ed Harris is a conscious screen actor, so I think it was strong, it was like he put everything together…

— Peter Weir

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be…

— Peter Weir

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these…

— Peter Weir

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be,…

— 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…

— Peter Weir

The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it…

— Peter Weir

Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient,…

— 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…

— Peter Weir

Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible…

— Peter Weir

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

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

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

— Peter Weir

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

— Peter Weir

It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held…

— Peter Weir

I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping 'The Way Back' screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to…

— Peter Weir

In terms of how I work with actors, having worked so heavily on the script I have a very clear idea of…

— Peter Weir

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

— Peter Weir

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added…

— Peter Weir

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

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too…

— Peter Weir

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

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

— Peter Weir

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

— Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas…

— Peter Weir

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