"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."



What attracted Robin Williams to the role of John Keating more then anything else was that John Keating was the type of teacher he in his school days always wished he had.

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It surpassed two other blockbuster Disney releases Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Русалочка.

The movie's line "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." was voted as the #95 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

To help his young leads bond, Peter Weir had them all room together.

The boy in the movie who says the line "The cat sat on a mat" was a St. Andrew's student at the time. He earned more than his teachers that year.

The scene where Todd cries outside in the snow was done in one take. It was originally an interior scene, but when it started to snow,
Peter Weir thought the scene might have more impact if it were done outside.
The snow was already beginning to let up so it had to be done in one take. Fortunately, Ethan Hawke managed it.

Loosely based on the experiences of private school students with Samuel Pickering, who is currently a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Peter Weir gave his young actors playing the students books that detailed what kids saw at the movies, listened to on the radio, and so on - a snapshot of life for teenagers in the 50s.

Director Peter Weir chose to shoot the film in chronological order to better capture the development of the relationships between the boys and their growing respect for Mr. Keating.

Tom Schulman would occasionally receive phone calls from his former high school friends, asking if they had been depicted as some of the school boys in the film.

Ethan Hawke's first impression of Peter Weir was that he "spoke funny". Weir was the first Australian that the young Hawke had ever met.

Liam Neeson had originally landed the leading role to be directed by Jeff Kanew, but lost it to Robin Williams when director Peter Weir came on board.

When the boys show Professor Keating his old senior yearbook picture, it is in reality Robin Williams high school senior picture when he was a student at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, north of San Francisco.

Originally, Professor Keating was supposed to die of leukemia. But the director decided to have the story focus on the boys instead.

In the very last scene, Cameron was supposed to stand on his desk as well. But Dylan Kussman vetoed the idea, because he didn't think it was in character. He was surprised when Peter Weir agreed.

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