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Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

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

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

– Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

Peter Mullan

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

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