Quotes from Peter Mullan
The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
- Peter Mullan
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
- Peter Mullan
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 they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
- Peter Mullan
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.
- Peter Mullan
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
- Peter Mullan
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 of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
- Peter Mullan
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
- Peter Mullan
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.
- Peter Mullan
I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.
- Peter Mullan
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
- Peter Mullan
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.
- Peter Mullan
Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.
- Peter Mullan