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If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
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Short Story Writer
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LA
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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...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.
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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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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'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.
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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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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
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