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Top 30 Peter Mullan Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.”

2. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “The Vatican has tried to condemn ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ as a pack of lies and that I’ve made it all up – I wish I was that good a dramatist – and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.”

3. “The Vatican has tried to condemn ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ as a pack of lies and that I’ve made it all up – I wish I was that good a dramatist – and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing’s more absurd.”

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “I was on the set of ‘Braveheart’ and my mate says to me, ‘Do you think this film will be any good?’ And I really meant this, too, I told him ‘Let me put it this way – It won’t win any awards.’ Cut to: five Oscars.”

8. “I was on the set of ‘Braveheart’ and my mate says to me, ‘Do you think this film will be any good?’ And I really meant this, too, I told him ‘Let me put it this way – It won’t win any awards.’ Cut to: five Oscars.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.’”

9. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “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!”

13. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn’t just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn’t tolerate this anymore.”

14. “In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn’t just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn’t tolerate this anymore.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.”

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.”

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “Truth is I don’t think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.”

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “Filmmaking is something I have to do. It’s not something I particularly want to do.”

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “It’s not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn’t turn out as it could have done, I’d feel as if I’d orphaned my baby.”

20. “It’s not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn’t turn out as it could have done, I’d feel as if I’d orphaned my baby.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “In terms of popular cinema, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is as near perfection as I can think of.”

21. “In terms of popular cinema, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is as near perfection as I can think of.”

— Peter Mullan

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

22. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.”

23. “Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.”

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “A lot of actors aren’t particularly good directors. And they’re not particularly good with other actors. That’s kind of a fallacy.”

24. “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

Peter Mullan Quote: “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.”

25. “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

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

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

— Peter Mullan

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

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

— Peter Mullan

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

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.”

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

— Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Quote: “If I’m at home on my own and the writing isn’t going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.”

30. “If I’m at home on my own and the writing isn’t going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.”

— Peter Mullan

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