Film Quotes by Irvine Welsh

9 Film quotes by Irvine Welsh

Welsh’s raw, street‑level voice surfaces in these nine brief statements about cinema. Expect a blend of humor and harsh realism that captures his unfiltered take on the medium.

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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the…

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I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back…

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I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make…

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[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same…

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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people…

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I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid…

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If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks.…

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I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to…

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We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted,…

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“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?”

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It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state,…

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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much…

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If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel…

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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id…

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If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't…

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I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

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If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at…

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Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,…

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

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“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose…

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I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I…

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