Film Quotes by Peter Mullan

11 Film quotes by Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan’s gritty perspective on movies comes across in this eleven‑line selection. It’s a brief yet potent snapshot for anyone wanting to hear his candid take on the medium.

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

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

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

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If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to…

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There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would…

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I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that…

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I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?'…

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Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director…

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I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with…

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In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way…

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The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty…

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

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If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting…

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The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing…

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

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In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a…

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I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I…

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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…

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There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer',…

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The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish…

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

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I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first…

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

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The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality…

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Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the…

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It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I…

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