Peter Mullan Quotes

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!