Peter Weir Quotes
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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I love talking about myself.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.
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The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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I am and always will be a leader.
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It's really cool to do, like, a 'Harry Potter' evolution because you can really take your time with the character development: really, like, don't rush past the implications of great power and great responsibility.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
