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 flagg…

- Peter Weir

I've done a number of things that get categories closed off in a way, so when I read 'The Long Walk' by Slavomir Rawicz and decided to do film, 'I th…

- Peter Weir

Music stops you from thinking.

- Peter Weir

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

- Peter Weir

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

- Peter Weir

Casting is always critical but in this case, 'The Way Back', I was looking internationally to a degree for an interesting mix of gentlemen, Irish, Po…

- Peter Weir

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

- Peter Weir

I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping 'The Way Back' screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging mo…

- Peter Weir

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it…

- Peter Weir