Peter Weir Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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 project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.”

“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.”

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

“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 of the camera placement.”

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

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

“Music stops you from thinking.”

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