Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

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

Lived from: 1964 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 7 march 1964

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  • Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64
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  • My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
    American Psycho (2014) 302
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  • No one ever likes the right person." ~ Bret Easton Ellis
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 261
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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.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 203
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  • Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • When I was bullied: you manned-up. You learned something. You realized: I'm not getting the gold star. You realized: you lose. Deal with it.
    On being bullied and the It Gets Better Project
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  • Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
    (2010)
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  • Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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  • Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
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  • You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
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  • You learn to move on without the people you love.
    Lunar Park (2010) 185
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