Peter Weir
Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed films crossing various genres over forty years, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Way Back
"Get the right actor, and the jobs halfway done. Ive only miscast major people twice in my life – out of respect to them, I wont tell you who. After a couple of days shooting, I had to tell them I was letting them go. It was hideous."
"Music is the fountainhead: everything comes from that. At the moment, Im getting intoxicated on Beethoven, and I use Pink Floyd for inspiration while making a film. Their music contains a sound for almost everything I do."
"When you get a cut and think, Im going to make a halfway decent film."
"The feeling that maybe you wont ever get your inspiration back. Thats a very cold place to be."
