Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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I'm Christian Bale', Russel, says, taking her hand.'Oh right,' she says. 'Yeah, I thought I recognized you. You're the actor.
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I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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'I just had my makeup done, so you can't make me cry.'
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People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
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Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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Disappear here.
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If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
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You do an awfully good impression of yourself.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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All of my books come from pain.
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I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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I don't know why I write what I write.