Peter Mullan Quotes

But once you`re in the movie business, that`s where you meet the real criminals. You meet the guys who no law will ever prosecute - these are the studio bosses, the guys who swan around town with £80m yachts.

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.

I worked with murderers for a long time after I left university - one thing you realise about the gangs and the criminals is that it`s acting by another means. If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you`re going to shoot them, that`s an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who`s as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you`ll use your knife, that`s an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

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. And what I love about actors and the bohemian scene, for all that a lot of us are wankers, there`s a genuine classlessness and there`s no discrimination on the basis of sexuality, colour, religion. We`re by no means the perfect species but on the whole we`re a pretty nice bunch of people to be around...

Braveheart was a real big deal. In our lifetime we had never seen the Scots as the heroes. They were always the funny guy or the drunk or whatever.