And I even went to my publisher and said Vanity Fair was thinking of publishing excerpts of the book and I said, ‘Is Vanity Fair really going to excerpt this that’d be cool?’ and he said, ’No Legs they’re not going to publish it, the book is about junkies and whores. I didn’t think the book would sell at all. When we did Please Kill Me we spent more than $100,000 on it but only got a $30,000 advance. Sometimes that’s true, sometimes that’s not. If I think it’s interesting then other people might. When asked how he and Gillian McCain were able to persevere in making Please Kill Me he said, “I just depend on my own gut instincts. What was truly remarkable about the work of McNeil & McCain, and others was that they did it with very little interest or support from the outside world.
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