Peter Mullan Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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