Peter Weir Quotes

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• The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether its a artifact or a theatrical event. But the whole is the sum of so many images.

  Peter Weir

  Thinking, Emotion, Theatrical

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• If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

  Peter Weir

  Kind, Film, Hell

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

  Peter Weir

  Imagination, Feels

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• 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.

  Peter Weir

  Couple, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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.

  Peter Weir

  Ties, Arbitrary, Length

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

  Peter Weir

  Creativity, Analysis, Too Much

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• I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

  Peter Weir

  Love Story

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Peter Weir

  Home, Feelings

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• It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something in the eyes and the face, you just can't fake it, you can't teach it, and I think Ed Harris has that quality.

  Peter Weir

  Spiritual, Regret, Eye

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In terms of how I work with actors, having worked so heavily on the script I have a very clear idea of the characters; they are reasonably well illustrated in the script. If you cast it right, to a great degree you can hand it over to the actor and I just make suggestions. I'm not the kind of director who needs or wants to get into too much finessing. Ideally, when you hit the set, you have this conversation, like, 'eh, what did you think?' 'I don't know, what did you think?' 'Why don't we just try it again, make a few physical changes.'

  Peter Weir

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Music stops you from thinking.

  Peter Weir

  Music, Thinking

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• Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much time as possible before pre-production, looking at stills. The next most important thing: he will come to me and talk about lenses. And I'll see his plan, which is generally great, and I might talk about how the light will be, handheld or not? I talk very freely, and try not to talk specifically, just talk around it, because it can unlock all sorts of things.

  Peter Weir

  Photography, Important, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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.

  Peter Weir

  Kids, Simple, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Peter Weir

  Real, Style, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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 dramas.'

  Peter Weir

  Drama, Adults, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we love that 'The Way Back' is not subsidized, it's alive and kicking. And if I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it, I've had a great run. But I'm more concerned with the younger people coming up that want to make this kind of film.

  Peter Weir

  Running, People, Kind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Peter Weir

  Doing You, Way, Selling

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• I love a chance to shoot real locations, because in films in the earlier days before people traveled as much, it was exotic to see a film set in Switzerland, and that area has been taken over by CGI, mostly, and fantasy landscapes. It's unusual to see this much landscape, people say it's old fashioned. So what you're referring to is there was that period in the '50s and '60s when there were epics and you saw landscape.

  Peter Weir

  Real, Taken, Epic

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

  Peter Weir

  Space, People, Stage

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• There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

  Peter Weir

  Thinking, Feelings, Gold

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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 which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

  Peter Weir

  Self, Ideas, Choices

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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.

  Peter Weir

  Bird, Tree, Hammers

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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.

  Peter Weir

  Theatre, Watches, Film

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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 was an entirely different art form.

  Peter Weir

  Art, Thinking, Silent Films

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• Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But that being said, the old way of graining in the camera, now you can make changes like a painter. It's dangerous because you can ruin the film, you can over-fiddle. We've all seen films and gone 'what the hell is that?'

  Peter Weir

  Film, Hell, Making Changes

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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