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
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.
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.
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.
There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
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.
Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.
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.
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.
It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed
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.