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'Poignant': Director Peter Weir on his lifetime achievement award at Venice

(2 Sep 2024) ASSOCIATED PRESS Venice, Italy – 2 September 2024 1. Wide shot Peter Weir arrives at press conference 2. Medium shot Peter Weir 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Weir, director: “I think very simply, coming from way down south from Australia, where I've always lived, even when making American movies, to come up here to Europe and particularly to Italy and to Venice, and there are other great cities in this extraordinary country. I get a charge like a battery being renewed, the creative battery, by looking at the works of art, the paintings, sculpture, architecture, and I go away refreshed, which makes this award rather poignant because for this great festival and city to have given me something I feel is wonderful because I have had so much from you.” 4. Wide shot press conference 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Weir, director: “But as for my relations with actors, I started as a kind of actor in a kind of university sketch comedy, a sort of would-be Monty Python. So I would write scripts with my friends and act. I thought for a while I might be an actor. Then I was in my own early films and I thought, no, I'm better at directing than acting. But I think that experience both in theater and on film and television, just over a few years, tending toward a professional life doing that, I pulled back and said, no, I'm going entirely for film. But the experience, I think, has given me a rapport with actors. I know what it's like to be on the other side of the camera.” 6. Wide shot press conference 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Weir, director – on working with Robin Williams: “He was very trusting. We had to work always, just the two of us. If a third person came in, like, we were meeting in his hotel room or mine to talk about the script, it was just like we are talking, fine. But if someone came in room service or something, he turned into a performer. He would be funny and he would be laughing at them, make the man laugh bringing the room service. And so he had this other side to him, and I was asking him to, in the film, to inhibit that extravagant side of his persona. And that took great trust in me because he, I think, felt somewhat naked if he wasn't being very big in performing. And so I would say to him, ‘No, I think you just relax. Just calm, calm. Just little things. Little small things. You don't have to be serious.’ I wanted to keep his charm. And he trusted me with that. And that's what he did in the film. He brought out a side of himself that we'd never seen before.” 8. Various shots press conference ends STORYLINE: Peter Weir, the Australian director and screenwriter of “Dead Poets Society,” “The Truman Show” and “Gallipoli,” will receive a prestigious honorary Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the 81st Venice Film Festival. Weir spoke about the honor at a press conference in the city on Monday, saying he was inspired by Italy, and Venice in particular. “I get a charge like a battery being renewed, the creative battery, by looking at the works of art, the paintings, sculpture, architecture, and I go away refreshed, which makes this award rather poignant because for this great festival and city to have given me something I feel is wonderful because I have had so much from you,” said Weir. The auteur made just thirteen movies over forty years, and has received six Oscar nominations, along with an honorary Oscar in 2023. Weir also directed the 1993 film “Fearless,” starring Jeff Bridges, but hasn’t made a feature since “The Way Back,” from 2010. He was president of the jury in at the festival in Venice in 1993. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...