When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
Peter WeirThe smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether its a artifact or a theatrical event. But the whole is the sum of so many images.
Peter WeirYou get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, a fine film, very interesting, but as for studio pictures, that's it, what else? There was more only a few years ago. So it changes, and I'm trying as much as I can.
Peter WeirI had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.
Peter Weir