Peter Weir Quotes

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

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.

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.

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

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

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

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

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

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 shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

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.

Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

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.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

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.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

Music stops you from thinking.

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

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

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

We accept the reality of the world in which we are presented.