Peter Mullan

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.

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.

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 long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

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