Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. Bret Easton Ellis Read Quote
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. Bret Easton Ellis Read Quote
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis. Bret Easton Ellis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
