The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy. Bret Easton Ellis More Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis More Quotes From Bret Easton Ellis I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade. Bret Easton Ellis choices looks thinking A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be? Bret Easton Ellis real letting-go past It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things. Bret Easton Ellis smart dad mom It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way. Bret Easton Ellis fighting mother way 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. Bret Easton Ellis tunes hurt mean 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 looks way thinking I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium. Bret Easton Ellis writing book thinking Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons. Bret Easton Ellis running night thinking You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future. Bret Easton Ellis writing book past I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author." Bret Easton Ellis narrators fiction thinking 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. Bret Easton Ellis writing two years I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. Bret Easton Ellis narrators smart believe I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book. Bret Easton Ellis book looks thinking I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. 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. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is. Bret Easton Ellis issues writing directors I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place. Bret Easton Ellis touched novel scene I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period. Bret Easton Ellis pain writing book I have to return some videotapes Bret Easton Ellis psycho return I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings. Bret Easton Ellis up-to-you kissing love-you Adjust my dreams for me. Bret Easton Ellis dream I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat. Bret Easton Ellis take-a-deep-breath heart laughing
