Peter Weir Quotes

Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn't do it and this one had plenty of reasons "not to do it".

I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

Do you want me to answer that?

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

Withholding a decision is a decision.

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

ITV and the production company contacted me and asked if I fancied playing the role [of Maigret]. It took me a long time to decide to do it. In fact, I decided not to. I thought about it for some weeks, and thought 'perhaps not' and it went away for a while, and then it sort of came back. They said 'Are you sure you don't want to play him?', so I thought about it for a lot longer again, and eventually decided that I would.

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

The time to hesitate is through.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.