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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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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.

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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 at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

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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.

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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.

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

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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 27th, 1961

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