Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them. Simone Elkeles
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
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. Bret Easton Ellis
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. Bret Easton Ellis
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically. Bret Easton Ellis
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. 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. Christian Grey is a writer's dream. Bret Easton Ellis
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. 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 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. 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
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. Bret Easton Ellis
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it. Bret Easton Ellis
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Bret Easton Ellis