Peter Mullan Quotes

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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