Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis
I totally relate to tom cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis. — Bret Easton Ellis
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t — Bret Easton Ellis
If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book — Bret Easton Ellis
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female hitchcock — Bret Easton Ellis
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports — Bret Easton Ellis
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don’t care what an audience thinks of me. — Bret Easton Ellis
Completely committed to adapting ‘fifty shades of grey’. This is not a joke. Christian grey and ana: — Bret Easton Ellis
Hope e.l .james doesn’t think I’m being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. — Bret Easton Ellis
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central hollywood story. — Bret Easton Ellis
Are you as much of a criminal if you don’t act when there’s a crime taking place in front of — Bret Easton Ellis
I’d rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don’t want to write fiction that tells people how to feel — Bret Easton Ellis
I had no idea that ‘less than zero’ was going to be read by anyone outside of los angeles — Bret Easton Ellis