Cinema Quote by Peter Weir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the only…

— Peter Weir

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

— Peter Weir