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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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I am gripped by an existential panic.
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And, Price adds, smiling, if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.
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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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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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It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
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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've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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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.
Bret Easton Ellis
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
Bret Easton Ellis
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
Bret Easton Ellis
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
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
You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton Ellis
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)
Bret Easton Ellis
Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
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