Love Quote by Peter Weir

There is a quiet defiance in Weir's version of ambition: he wants the next thing, but only on terms that protect the kind of filmmaking he built his reputation on. The first sentence is all appetite - "I'd love" and "I'm in the mood to work" makes him sound less like a maestro guarding his legacy than a craftsperson itching to get back to the bench. Then he drops the real constraint: patience. Not because he's waiting for inspiration in some mystical sense, but because the industry makes "that particular kind of project" increasingly scarce.

That phrase does a lot of work. Weir doesn't say "a good script" or "a big budget". He implies a specific ecosystem: adult dramas with moral weather, stories that trust atmosphere and ambiguity, films that don't arrive pre-sold as IP. In contemporary Hollywood, where risk is managed by franchises and metrics, his patience becomes a form of resistance. It's also a tacit acknowledgment of diminished leverage. A director of his stature shouldn't have to wait, yet he does.

The final clause, about writing "if I can summon up the energy", punctures any romantic image of the auteur. Writing isn't presented as a pure creative impulse; it's contingency labor, the thing you do when the gatekeepers aren't offering what you need. Subtext: he still has ideas, but the real battle is logistical and bodily - stamina, time, and the grind required to will a film into existence in an era that rewards speed over singularity.