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, 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.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed