I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. — Bret Easton Ellis Issues Copy Share Image
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Descansado," he tells me. "What does that mean?" "Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next… — Bret Easton Ellis Children Copy Share Image
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something… — Bret Easton Ellis Cold Copy Share Image
“She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softly. "It's just a… — Bret Easton Ellis Angry Copy Share Image
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I can't disagree." I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in… — Bret Easton Ellis Big idea Copy Share Image
“The Patty Winters Shows were all repeats. Life remained a blank canvas, a cliche, a soap opera. I felt lethal, on the… — Bret Easton Ellis Blank canvas Copy Share Image
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono’s head in orange wavy… — Bret Easton Ellis Devil Copy Share Image
I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Abstract Copy Share Image
“While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Better place Copy Share Image
I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a… — Bret Easton Ellis Analysis Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a… — Bret Easton Ellis Compassion Copy Share Image
“The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me” played over the montage, not that the lyrics had anything to do with the images… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He considers something. "It's not a joke.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“@BretEastonEllis 31 Mar After watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that… — Bret Easton Ellis Autobiographical Copy Share Image
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. — Bret Easton Ellis Business Copy Share Image
“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over… — Bret Easton Ellis Consequences Copy Share Image
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. — Bret Easton Ellis Boeing Copy Share Image
“Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married." Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss… — Bret Easton Ellis Breaking up Copy Share Image
“Danny is on my bed and depressed because Ricky was picked up by a break dancer at the Odyssey on the night… — Bret Easton Ellis Duran duran Copy Share Image
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't… — Bret Easton Ellis Dream Copy Share Image
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
