American - Author | March 7, 1964 -
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 think basically most men are misogynistic.
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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 totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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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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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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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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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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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 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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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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