Peter Weir quotes

Music is the fountainhead: everything comes from that. At the moment, I'm getting intoxicated on Beethoven, and I use Pink Floyd for inspiration while making a film. Their music contains a sound for almost everything I do. (Peter Weir)
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. View quote
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. View quote
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 ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. View quote
Peter Weir
Get the right actor, and the job's halfway done. I've only miscast major people twice in my life – out of respect to them, I won't tell you who. After a couple of days' shooting, I had to tell them I was letting them go. It was hideous. View quote
Peter Weir
When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film. View quote
Peter Weir
The feeling that maybe you won't ever get your inspiration back. That's a very cold place to be. View quote
Peter Weir
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 on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom. View quote
Peter Weir
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. View quote
Peter Weir
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much. View quote
Peter Weir
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)
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. View quote
Peter Weir
Music stops you from thinking. View quote
Peter Weir
You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker. View quote
Peter Weir
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 saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman. View quote
Peter Weir
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. View quote
Peter Weir
I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy. View quote
Peter Weir
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space. View quote
Peter Weir
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' View quote
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 what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. View quote
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 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)