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Scottish - Novelist | September 27, 1961 -

We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.

Live World Better Feel Desire Want

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.

Power Words People Energy Hurt You

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

Government Television Become Priest

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

Thinking You Move Different Soon

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

Cool Someone You Nothing Office Up

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.

People Start Compromise Literature

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.

Budget Go Way Opening Without Raise

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.

Time People Writing Book Madness

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

Life Drama Kind Everyone Needs Some

I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

Fun Have Fun Look Uncle I Can Grind

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

Doing Been Directing Even Bit

In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'

New York America Look New Street

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