Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be
published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b.
1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and
work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and
colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject.
He talks about "the precious desperation of the art, the madness,
the willingness to experiment" in all his films; the adaptation
process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, "I'm
going to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood!"; and
his self-assessment as "merely a jester, with cap and bells, going
from court to court. " He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his
own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to
his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the
1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early
1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An
extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film.
Interviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of work-his
earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, and
The Year of Living Dangerously, as well as Academy Award-nominated
Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and
Master and Commander. This book confirms that the trajectory of
Weir's life and work parallels and embodies Australia's own quest
to define and express a historical and cultural identity.
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