Peter Weir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
-- Peter Weir

#Theatre #Watches #Film
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.
-- Peter Weir

#Real #Thinking #Pieces
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
-- Peter Weir

#Drama #Adults #Film
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 actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.
-- Peter Weir

#Art #Thinking #Different
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
-- Peter Weir

#Ties #Arbitrary #Length
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
-- Peter Weir

#Space #People #Stage
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

#Kids #Simple #Remember
Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.
-- Peter Weir

#World #Sides #Unlikely
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 sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
-- Peter Weir

#Moving #Australia #Feelings
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
-- Peter Weir

#Bird #Tree #Stones
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 for bugs and things.
-- Peter Weir

#Stars #Business #People
It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed
-- Peter Weir

#Imagination #Feels
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 find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
-- Peter Weir

#Writing #Goes On #Energy
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 you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
-- Peter Weir

#Decision #Done #Interviews
Music stops you from thinking.
-- Peter Weir

#Thinking
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 which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
-- Peter Weir

#Self #Ideas #Choices
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

#Way #Doing You #Selling
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 inhibit creativity.
-- Peter Weir

#Creativity #Too Much #Resistance
You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.
-- Peter Weir

#Certain #Sensitivity #Filmmaker

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