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Peter Weir
Australian
Director
About the author
Music stops you from thinking.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Thinking
#Music
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.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Example
#Internet
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 for bugs and things.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Security
#People
#Work
#Stars
#Business
#Houses
#Bugs
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,
Australian
Director
#Words
#Fear
#Ideas
#Self
#Choices
#Meaning
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 flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Right
#Now
#Film
#Hollywood
#Feeling
#Sense
#Word
#Misleading
#Potential
#Cinema
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 to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Saying
#Play
#Balance
#Fact
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 what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Decisions
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.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Love
#Film
#Work
#Energy
#Project
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.
Peter Weir,
Australian
Director
#Film