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Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan
Scottish Actor
Born: Nov 2, 1959
Actor Director Good People Will You
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Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Peter Mullan
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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. Peter Mullan
Life Death People Walk Some People Smell Air Those Out Some Come Fresh Fresh Air Very Being Room Then Who Suck
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. Peter Mullan
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You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. Peter Mullan
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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.' Peter Mullan
Love Day You Sometimes End Of The Day Job Complete Say See Guys Physically Mentally Through Emotionally Know Catharsis Go End Where Pub Acting
Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science. Peter Mullan
Politics Truth God Daily Science Truth Is Think Daily Basis Basis
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. Peter Mullan
World Achieve Crime Profit Hesitate Criminals Would Bosses Part Obsessed Know Because Movie Gain Movies Act Reason Why
Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear. Peter Mullan
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A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy. Peter Mullan
Good Other Kind Directors Particularly Fallacy Lot Actor
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! Peter Mullan
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What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own? Peter Mullan
Wealth Power Own Point Look America May After
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. Peter Mullan
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When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy. Peter Mullan
Comedy Turn Really Painful Things
No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared. Peter Mullan
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Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church. Peter Mullan
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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
Life Rights Age Thinking Back Out Telling About Emotionally Like Wrongs Course Them Plans Dedicated Figuring Dad
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
Work Way Ways More Directors Colony Particular Come Like Look Particular Way Up Very Scotland Than Behave Want
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
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The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry. Peter Mullan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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