There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could … - Peter Weir

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

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.

Arrived, Become, Choices, Ideas, Meaning, Self

Same Author Quotes

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

Hanging Out, Location, Theatre, Together, Wary

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, Polish, Russian and American. Not many people had the qualifications, people who would play the game, particular to this industry. So I had to research amongst the cast. They had to be very very prepared as we had to start shooting as soon as we could, there wasn't any time to talk, and there would only be three or four takes.

Cast, Four, Gentleman, Interesting, People, Talk

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

Back, Hero, People, Survivor, Survivors, Whole

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

Feelings, Fiction, Home, Movies, Wary

I love a chance to shoot real locations, because in films in the earlier days before people traveled as much, it was exotic to see a film set in Switzerland, and that area has been taken over by CGI, mostly, and fantasy landscapes. It's unusual to see this much landscape, people say it's old fashioned. So what you're referring to is there was that period in the '50s and '60s when there were epics and you saw landscape.

50S, Chance, Epic, Old, Real, Taken