Quotes About Peter Weir

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.

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.