Whats the current state of Australian cinema?
Peter Weir: What I hear is that it’s not a very good period. I suppose the last great creative explosion we had was Baz Luhrmann. It’s hard to maintain a thriving film industry in most countries. There are really only two, Hollywood and Bollywood. Sometimes I think maybe highly talented people are like truffles. They seemingly occur at random. But I also think these things are cyclical. So the Australian renaissance of the late ’70s and early ’80s happened merely by accident? I don’t know if there’s any one neat answer. It was an explosion of talent that coincided with one on these shores, when you had Spielberg and Coppola and Scorsese and Lucas all coming into their own at the same time that we were. There was just something about the social conditions of the times, but when it comes to individual talent, I tend to feel it could happen at any time, rather than as some kind of an orchestrated movement. If I asked you for a personal favorite among your films, would you just give me the
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