Quote

I don't know why I write what I write.

Bret Easton Ellis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
LA
California
Bret-Easton Ellis
Bret Ellis
Write
Writing

More quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Image
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
We buy balloons, we let them go.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
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
Image
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
Bret Easton Ellis