Peter Weir Quotes

• Music stops you from thinking.

  Peter Weir

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• 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.

  Peter Weir

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Peter Weir

• 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

• 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.

  Peter Weir

• 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

• I’d love to have another film to go on to. I’m in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I’ll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

  Peter Weir

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Birth:	21st August, 1944
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Producer, Writer

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Today's Anniversary - 9th December

Births

• 1944 - Neil Innes
• 1941 - Libby Houston
• 1934 - Judi Dench
• 1928 - Dick Van Patten
• 1916 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Deaths

• 1948 - Robert Quillen
• 1994 - Max Bill
• 1971 - Ralph Bunche
• 2002 - Mary Hansen
• 2005 - Robert Sheckley