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No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
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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 write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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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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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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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If you start looking at movies on a moral level - I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says I don't like science-fiction movies, or I don't want to sit through a Western, or I don't like violence in movies, then I completely tune out.
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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
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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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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.
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I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.
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I am gripped by an existential panic.
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