Quotes from 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.

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.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

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

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

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.