Peter Weir Quotes

Peter Weir — Australian Director born on August 21, 1944,

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM is an Australian film director. He played a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock, the mystery drama-thriller The Last Wave and the historical drama Gallipoli. The climax of Weir's early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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