"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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