Peter Weir Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Peter Weir

  Country, Men, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keeping it very simple is you might loose some of the audience because it's not overt, it's hidden, not coming at you. Then you might cut through to some of this numbness and reach something profound and tragic.

  Peter Weir

  War, Cutting, Simple

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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.

• 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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