Quotes from Peter Mullan

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

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

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

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.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

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.

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.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

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.

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.

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 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.