Peter Weir Quotations

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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.

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.

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.

Music stops you from thinking.

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.

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.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

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.