Peter Weir
Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir, AMis an Australian film director. He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement, with films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock, the supernatural thriller The Last Waveand the historical drama Gallipoli. The climax of Weir's early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 August 1944
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
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.
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
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.
Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.
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.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
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.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
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.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.