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The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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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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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
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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 am gripped by an existential panic.
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.
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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.
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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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I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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