Bret Easton Ellis

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.

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.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

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

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

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.