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What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
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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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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.
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