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 ELLISNo one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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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.
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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.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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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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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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