Peter Mullan - Best Quotes

Society

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.

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.

Smile

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.'

Peter Mullan

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.'

Positive

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

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.

Politics

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

Peter Mullan

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

Movies

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

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.

Imagination

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

Peter Mullan

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

Death

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

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.

Dad

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Peter Mullan

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 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.'

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.

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.

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.