Peter Mullan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.”

“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.”

“Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.”

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