Peter Weir Quotes

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• So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will…
• 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.
• 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…
• Music stops you from thinking.
• 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…
• Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to…
• It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed
• 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…
• I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
• 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…
• Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.
• The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
• Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became…
• You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.
• 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…
• 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…
• It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from…
• 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…

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