Welsh, Irvine Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Magnificent Eleven

  2013, role: actor , character name: Disgruntled Diner
• Play in Full Screen Filth

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Cyclone

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Filth

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Magnificent Eleven

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Magnificent Eleven

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Rachael

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Derailed Sense: A Film About Vic Godard & Subway Sect

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen How to Make a Film

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Upside Down: The Creation Records Story

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen In Sunshine or in Shadow

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Porcupine

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Good Arrows

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Meat Trade

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Good Arrows

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Good Arrows

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Ecstasy

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The New Ten Commandments

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Anton

  2008, role: actor , character name: Father Freedom
• Play in Full Screen Nuts

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Wedding Belles

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Wedding Belles

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Nuts

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Nuts

  2007, role: actor , character name: Drunk
• Play in Full Screen 50 Films to See Before You Die

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bad Blood

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Mullets and Bars

  2005, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Dose

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Dose

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The 100 Greatest Films

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Dockers

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Acid House

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Acid House

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Acid House

  1998, role: actor , character name: Parkie
• Play in Full Screen Trainspotting

  1996, role: actor , character name: Mikey Forrester
• Play in Full Screen Trainspotting

  1996, role: writer

Famous quotes by Irvine Welsh:

"I don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are music and football, and I have never really been good at either."

"I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, ‘don’t smoke marijuana, it will kill you’ . . ."

"Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is."

"Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books."

"Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have."

"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."

"I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships."

"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."

"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."

"The first job of a writer is to be honest."

"There is a kind of mysticism to writing."

"What worries me is the professionalism of everything."

"When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies."

"When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music."

"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

"I enjoy the freedom of the blank page."

"I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative."

"The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel."

"When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it."

"I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."