Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There’s this sort of one-upmanship in the underground. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
As soon as you’ve written it, you’re thinking about how it can move into different mediums. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you’re going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it’s going to be a compromise. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
For ‘Filth,’ we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
You’re on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you’re spending all this time with people who don’t actually exist, which is just madness. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I’ve been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
In America, Miramax are using a ‘New York Times’ review that said ‘Trainspotting’ makes ‘Kids’ look like a 1960s episode of ‘Sesame Street.’ Irvine Welsh Read Quote
