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When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film.

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Get the right actor, and the job's halfway done. I've only miscast major people twice in my life – out of respect to them, I won't tell you who. After a couple of days' shooting, I had to tell them I was letting them go. It was hideous.

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The feeling that maybe you won't ever get your inspiration back. That's a very cold place to be.

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Music is the fountainhead: everything comes from that. At the moment, I'm getting intoxicated on Beethoven, and I use Pink Floyd for inspiration while making a film. Their music contains a sound for almost everything I do.

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Based on quote from Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act II, scene v: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
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Born: August 21, 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian film director. He played a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock, the mystery drama-thriller The Last Wave, the historical drama Gallipoli, and The Truman Show.
Known for:
  1. The Truman Show (1998)
  2. Dead Poets Society (1989)
  3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
  4. The Way Back (2010)
  5. Gallipoli (1981)

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