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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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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... →

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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... →

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

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You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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