Peter Weir quotes

Peter Weir is an acclaimed Australian film director and screenwriter recognized for his influential contributions to world cinema. His films, such as "Dead Poets Society," "The Truman Show," and "Picnic at Hanging Rock," are renowned for their emotional depth and visual storytelling. He has received numerous awards and nominations, solidifying his reputation as one of Australia's most celebrated filmmakers. Here are 21 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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.

Peter Weir

When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film.

Peter Weir

The feeling that maybe you won't ever get your inspiration back. That's a very cold place to be.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Weir

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

Peter Weir

Music stops you from thinking.

Peter Weir

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Weir

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

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.'

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.

Peter Weir