Peter Webber Quotes & Sayings

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions." — Peter Webber

I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think. — Peter Webber

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake. — Peter Webber

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made. — Peter Webber

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality. — Peter Webber

I don't want people to pigeonhole me. — Peter Webber

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make. — Peter Webber

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it. — Peter Webber

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV. — Peter Webber

Sometimes beauty can be a trap. — Peter Webber

I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends. — Peter Webber

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed. — Peter Webber

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster. — Peter Webber

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV. — Peter Webber

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them. — Peter Webber