Quotes by Peter Mullan

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.

Actors

Directors

Kind

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.

Actors

Directors

Useless

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.

Directors

Real

Trainspotting

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It’s not something I particularly want to do.

Filmmaking

Want

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.

Hero

Kids

Potters

I don’t like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

Character

Trying

Way

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

Absurd

Kids

World

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!

Grandmother

Hate

People

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.’

Father

Football

Play

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.

Guy

Jobs

The End Of The Day

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Absurd

Acting

Actors

Aggression

Air

America

Appreciate

Arbitrary

Baby

Bases

Boss

Catholic

Character

Church

Cinema

Comedy

Connections

Criminals

Cutting

Directors

Drama

Enjoy

Father

Fiction

Fighting

Film

Filmmaking

Football

Frustrated

Gains

Games

Girl

Giving

Grandmother

Guy

Hate

Hero

Home

Ideas

Imagination

Instinct

Interesting

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Leader

Life Is

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Looks

Lying

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Quotes by Peter Mullan

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.

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.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It’s not something I particularly want to do.

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 don’t like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

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

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!

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.’

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.

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