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Bret Easton Ellis

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I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. - Bret Easton Ellis
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does. - Bret Easton Ellis
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked. - Bret Easton Ellis
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. - Bret Easton Ellis
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis. - Bret Easton Ellis
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I don't know why I write what I write. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. - Bret Easton Ellis
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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. - Bret Easton Ellis
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