Peter Mullan

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

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 for UFA as a set designer, you know.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.