Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

• I needed something–the distraction of another life–to alleviate fear.

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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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  Tags in Writing, Acting

• I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

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  Tags in Relates, Crazy

• 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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  Tags in Literary, Sensibility

• I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.

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  Tags in Feel

• It’s the rare book that’s able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

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  Tags in Transport

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Write, Movie

• No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

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  Tags in Drawn, Happy

• Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.

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  Tags in Director, Movie

• 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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  Topics in Business

• 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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  Tags in Successful

• I don’t know why I write what I write.

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  Tags in Write

• I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

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  Topics in College

• I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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  Tags in Problems

• Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

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  Tags in Exorcist

• All of my books come from pain.

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  Tags in Books, Pain

• Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don’t care what an audience thinks of me.

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  Tags in Thinking, People

• I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

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  Tags in Legacy, Protect

• 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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  Tags in Committed, Completely

Bret Easton Ellis (26)

Birth:	7th March, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Bret Easton Ellis was born in Los Angeles, California. He is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about wealthy amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most known for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. In 2010, Ellis released Imperial Bedrooms, the sequel to his début novel.

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