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Quotes by Peter Weir

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.
– Peter Weir
I wrote a thing for myself called A Short History of The Truman Show about how it all came to be, and who Christof was (the obsessive creator and producer of the world-wide broadcast that follows Truman's life). I wrote it as if it were a press release from the show.
– 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
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
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
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
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
She is so cold and so hard and so neurotic because of what she's done. She's immensely wealthy - making profits of a Meryl-Made line of clothing and so forth. But she is so deeply compromised because of all of this.
– Peter Weir
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.
– Peter Weir
The original version of the screenplay was much darker, and portrayed the central character as more of an Everyman. It was also set in Manhattan.
– Peter Weir
Then the producer said, Do you know Jim Carrey? And I thought, My God, what an interesting idea!
– 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
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
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
Why build New York? Why build something that's known instead of having an idealized setting? Nevertheless, the script absolutely intrigued me. It was most untypical of Hollywood.
– Peter Weir