Peter Weir Quotes - Page 2

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

  Peter Weir

  Communicate

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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 what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

  Peter Weir

  Decision, Done, Interviews

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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 for bugs and things.

  Peter Weir

  Stars, Business, People

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• I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

  Peter Weir

  Theatre, Together, Hanging Out

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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 flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Peter Weir

  Moving, Australia, Feelings

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• Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

  Peter Weir

  World, Sides, Unlikely

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• You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

  Peter Weir

  Certain, Sensitivity, Filmmaker

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

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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

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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 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.

  Peter Weir

  Real, Thinking, Pieces

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• Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

  Peter Weir

  Writing, Energy, Goes On

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• 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.

  Peter Weir

  Nasty, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, a fine film, very interesting, but as for studio pictures, that's it, what else? There was more only a few years ago. So it changes, and I'm trying as much as I can.

  Peter Weir

  Independent, Thinking, Interesting

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• Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.

  Peter Weir

  Trying, Making Money, Instinct

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think Ed Harris is a conscious screen actor, so I think it was strong, it was like he put everything together somehow in 'The Way Back'. He likes, I don't want to say the method approach, because that's not really necessarily his way of working, but it was easy to do because of the location. He'd go off by himself, and they would make things.

  Peter Weir

  Strong, Thinking, Together

  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

  Source: www.indiewire.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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• In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

  Peter Weir

  Hero, People, Survivor

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• I've done a number of things that get categories closed off in a way, so when I read 'The Long Walk' by Slavomir Rawicz and decided to do film, 'I thought, you know, this is going to be wonderful,' two and a half years, three years, whatever it was.

  Peter Weir

  Long, Done, Wonderful

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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