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Top 15 Peter Weir Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Weir Quote: “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.”

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

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

Peter Weir Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “Music stops you from thinking.”

5. “Music stops you from thinking.”

Peter Weir Quote: “It doesn’t take any imagination at all to feel awed.”

6. “It doesn’t take any imagination at all to feel awed.”

Peter Weir Quote: “I carve stone. I’ve got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.”

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

8. “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 Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “I’m not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.”

10. “I’m not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.”

Peter Weir Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “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.”

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

14. “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 Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.”

18. “You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.”

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