Peter Mullan Quotes

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• Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
• A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
• 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.
• 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 takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if 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.'
• 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…
• 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…
• I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what…
• When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
• Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a…
• The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
• 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 finger…
• Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.
• 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 give…
• Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly…
• What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
• The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I…
• I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really…

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