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20 quotes by Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM (/wɪər/; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. He played a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema (1970-1990) with his films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the mystery drama-thriller The Last Wave (1977) and the historical drama Gallipoli (1981). The climax of Weir's early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), starring Mel...
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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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

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Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware... →

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

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

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Music stops you from thinking.

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

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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... →

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There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home.... →

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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... →

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With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a... →

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