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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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.
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.
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
I just want to get on and tell stories.
I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.
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