Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director

Alive from: 1964-

Category: Movie | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

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  'As a genereal rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.
  Source: Glamorama (1998)

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  All of my books come from pain.

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  Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

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  But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
  Source: Lunar Park (2010) 204

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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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  Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

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  Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

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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.

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  Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

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  Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

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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?
  Source: American Psycho (2014) 301

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  I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

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  I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

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  I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
  Source: American Psycho (2014) 302