Quotes by Peter Weir

Peter Weir

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.

Film

Nasty

Casting is always critical but in this case, ‘The Way Back’, I was looking internationally to a degree for an interesting mix of gentlemen, Irish, Polish, Russian and American. Not many people had the qualifications, people who would play the game, particular to this industry. So I had to research amongst the cast. They had to be very very prepared as we had to start shooting as soon as we could, there wasn’t any time to talk, and there would only be three or four takes.

Gentleman

Interesting

People

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

Communicate

Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more than one of this kind of man that’s iconic and enormously appealing to the world, as part of American film culture.

Country

Men

World

I always thought the editor should cut the film and so I’ll come in and look at the movie. Just because that’s the only way I can really see the ideas of the editor, it’s really working together. Yes it’s a hierarchy, yes I’m the boss, but I like to see and to think about the idea, and it’s about us asking, ‘do we have to say that?’ and, ‘how do we make it there?’ So it’s advising the editor, it’s very give and take, it’s very free, but in the end, it’s wonderful once you get through the first couple of cuts.

Couple

Cutting

Thinking

I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping ‘The Way Back’ screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging moments, and to hold the music back, so it would never lead you to an emotion, and to try to make the emotions as real as I could.

Real

Style

Trying

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

Bird

Hammers

Tree

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.

Doing You

Selling

Way

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 be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction – but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

Pieces

Real

Thinking

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

Feelings

Home

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Adults

Analysis

Arbitrary

Art

Australia

Bird

Business

Certain

Character

Choices

Communicate

Country

Couple

Creativity

Cutting

Decision

Doing You

Done

Drama

Emotion

Energy

Epic

Eye

Feelings

Feels

Film

Filmmaker

Gentleman

Goes On

Gold

Hammers

Hanging Out

Hell

Hero

Home

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Independent

Instinct

Interesting

Interviews

Kids

Kind

Length

Long

Love Story

Making Changes

Making Money

Men

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Quotes by Peter Weir

Peter Weir

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.

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

Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more than one of this kind of man that’s iconic and enormously appealing to the world, as part of American film culture.

I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping ‘The Way Back’ screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging moments, and to hold the music back, so it would never lead you to an emotion, and to try to make the emotions as real as I could.

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

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