Quotes by Peter Mullan - Page 1

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Actors
Frustrated
Nine
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When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Comedy
Painful
Turns
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Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Absurd
Fiction
Life Is
Life Nothing More
Weirder
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I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Kids
Absurd
World
World Find More
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Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Bases
Thinking
Truth Is
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
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You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Imagination
Instinct
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Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Filmmaking
Want
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The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Enjoy
Film
Made
Mavericks
Wont
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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.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Cinema
Flew
Perfection
Thinking
Cuckoo
Near
Nest
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What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
Peter Mullan / Actor
America
Looks
May
Wealth
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I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Character
Nasty
Trying
Way
Grab
Something Good
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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.'
Peter Mullan / Actor
Father
Football
Hug
Play
Virtually
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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.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Actors
Directors
Fallacy
Kind
Particularly
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Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Catholic
Catholic Church
Church
Connections
Imaginative
Leap
Relation
Taliban
Connection
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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.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Actors
Directors
Useless
Designers
Minute
Script
Utterly
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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.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Gains
Sometimes
Understanding
Confront
Demons
Genuinely
Gain
Loose
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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 / Actor
Fighting
Games
Long
Time Game Long
Half The Time
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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.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Aggression
Bohemia
Competitiveness
Peaceful
Prejudice
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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 at us. That's when I get angry.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Angry
Huge
Laughing
Magician
Becomes
Club
Vatican
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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.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Home
Clean
Past
Writing
In The Past
Past Few Years
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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 they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Behave
Colony
Scotland
Work Look Way
Particular Way
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No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Scared
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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 have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Kids
Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter
Hero
Potters
Daniel
Deathly
Harry
Nicer
Potter
Radcliffe
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Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Dear
Background
Recreate
Screwed
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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 be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Draws
Accordingly
Character People See
Bum
Seat
Character Actor
Million People
Qualify
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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 / Actor
Air
Fresh Air
People
Smell
Life Death Walk
Fresh
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As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Dedicated
Plans
Life Age Dad
Emotionally
Figuring
Wrongs
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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!
Peter Mullan / Actor
Furniture
Grandmother
Hate
People
Bought
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I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Jobs
Guy
The End Of The Day
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I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'
Peter Mullan / Actor
Catharsis
Physically
Love End Of The Day Day
Mentally
Love Day Sometimes
Complete
Emotionally
End Of The Day
Pub
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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', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Hate
Ideas
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Cinema
Detriment
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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...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Criticism
Guts
Good Idea
Minute
Nicer
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The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Acting
Appreciate
People
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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 really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Awards
Cutting
Oscars
Thinking
Winning
Good Me Will
Good Me Win
Meant
Cut
Mate
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It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Absolutes
Brain
Ideas
Media
Strong
Politicians
Good Idea
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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 give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Baby
Direct
Giving
Writing
Done Me Feel
Me Feel Done
Orphaned
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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 / Actor
Achieve
Boss
Crime
Criminals
Obsessed
Profit
World
Bosses
Gain
Hesitate
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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 I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Lying
Public Relations
Wish
Sisters
Condemn
Good Wish I Wish
Dramatist
Lies
Pack
Relations
Vatican
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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 finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Audience
Catholic
Catholic Church
Church
Oppression
People
Poke
Religious
Theocracy
Throat
Tolerate
Anymore
Bringing
Finger
Subject
Wider
Wider Audience
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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 underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Beggar
Interesting
Opera
People
Thinking
Society Look People
Extremely
Reflects
Right Back
So-Called
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Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Plot
Profit
Weak
Diminishes
Margin
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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 you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Next Year
Good Believe Bad
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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 babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Arbitrary
Babe
Gang
Leader
Military
Structure
Good Looking More
Dismantle
Sign
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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 TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Jordan
Reality Tv
Working Class
Aspirations
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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 actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Buzz
Greater
Privilege
Seeing
Always Me Will
Visual
Always Me Live
Anyone Else
Director
How Much
Improve
List
Sees
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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 will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Breakdown
Cameraman
Directors
Exception
Exhaustion
Real
Trainspotting
Sign
Witnessed
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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 exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Frustrated
Nine
Bank
Shop
Persuade
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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 girls in the show. I realized; I found out very early on, that the lead comic gets the girl. So, that was cool. When I went to university, I studied Economic Social History. And drama. That kind of got me into it. My main passion was to make films. It was never to be an actor. At that time, there weren't many opportunities for a working class Scottish actor. It was kind of an English thing. And it required a certain mannered cerebral acting style that I couldn't relate to.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Girl
Drama
Passion
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