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… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed.… — Bret Easton Ellis 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 Copy Share Image
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis 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'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?" [...] "'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“he looked at me with such vehemence that I felt like a blip, a fart, in the course of his life.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“This isn't a script," Julian says. "It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won't have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic underclass-- and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that I had… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you’re standing in a crowd I feel those sultry dark eyes of yours stop on me. Are you too afraid to come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried. -Lunar planet” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image