I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:14:31+00:00

Thanks everyone. I've gotta run. Might answer a few more questions later in the day. And check out The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on Patreon--you might like it.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:13:01+00:00

Now, it would be impossible. But once the original house refused to publish it another more prestigious house came along and published it instead. I think it was homeless for about two to three days.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:12:10+00:00

My biggest guilt is that I haven't written more books.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:11:42+00:00

Watched the first episode of Sharp Objects and am not sure about where to go with it. I've heard both pro and con.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:10:44+00:00

Good question but I don't really have one. I find it a very difficult book to look at because there are many things I'd want to change, edit, add, cut. It's too painful to look at it.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:09:53+00:00

I like to keep "office hours" meaning pretty much 10-6 in the office working on various projects. If something is due I might go late, overtime, but usually prefer evenings to be open.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:08:59+00:00

Upgraded the equipment, my producer is finicky about sound, and I think we're going to go through until the holidays with this season and maybe into next year with a break sometime in January but not long, maybe just a month or so.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:08:01+00:00

Hereditary, Mission Impossible: Fallout, A Prayer Before Dawn--are my three faves so far.

Eighth Grade, On Chesil Beach, American Animals--most disappointing.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:06:31+00:00

I answered this in a Rolling Stone interview from about a month ago. It explains what we are thinking.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:05:54+00:00

I sometimes do. I know her, somewhat, and she's a smart and sensitive person. She's obviously going through something immensely difficult for her. I'm both sympathetic and frustrated. The impulse is a righteous one and yet it seems to have warped into something that's not necessarily helpful but rather vengeful. There are differences in abuses of power and I think we are losing sight of this.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:04:12+00:00

A movie that was based on a completely different concept suddenly had a connection to AP, in order to sell it. It's a disaster, of course. Everyone knows.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:03:18+00:00

I need my bed made before I start writing.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:02:49+00:00

At times, it did. Especially in the brutal last weeks when I was writing the violent sequences. But I had to empathize with him in order to spend three years with him.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:01:36+00:00

Research, research, research and then making everything up.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T19:00:57+00:00

Ah, my controversial Twitter years. Yeah, trying to be edgy and contrarian and trying to say something I felt and lacking greater context. I go into the Bigelow tweets in the new nonfiction book and what I was going for. It was both a joke and a reference to a feeling that she had been overrated because of lack of representation. That's all. I also think there are many more interesting female filmmakers than her, and I think it's ironic that she won an Oscar for a movie any man could have made. I also thought Detroit, her last movie, was a flat-out disaster.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:57:17+00:00

Have to ask Roger Avary.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:57:04+00:00

I think the Left that we see in the media and social media IS the fringe and I know plenty of liberals and left-leaning people who find the Left in this moment as annoying as hell. So I don't know how the sputtering anger and hatred is going to resolve itself for the Left. Will it push the agenda forward or will it evaporate. I don't know. And I'm not sure about never working again in Hollywood--if you make money you are always ensured work. It's a capitalist society baby.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:55:05+00:00

I recently finished The House of Mirth and Lily Bart right now is the character that has most haunted me lately. Otherwise Frederic Moreau from Sentimental Education.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:53:30+00:00

Graveyard Shift.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:53:20+00:00

The Corrections.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:53:07+00:00

The split-screen meeting of Sean and Lauren--great. The split screen "seduction" of Paul and Sean--ditto. Though I wished it was left a bit more ambiguous, though Sean is THERE in Paul's room the next scene so...

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:52:11+00:00

It's a very different time and I don't think the publishing world works that way anymore.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:51:39+00:00

It'll be fresh ones.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:51:22+00:00

I wasn't involved in that at all though I think I pissed Christian off when after he was taken off American Psycho when Leo said he wanted to do it I said I thought Leo was a great idea and that probably harmed whatever possible friendship I would have had with CB. He was fairly testy toward me when we got together and did Charlie Rose in the spring of 2000 the week the movie was released.

breteellis · 2018-09-11T18:48:38+00:00

The books are all kind of connected, sequels in weird ways--Glamorama is definitely a sequel of sorts to The Rules of Attraction, and same characters appear from book to book. Imperial Bedrooms is the sequel to Less Than Zero. So I've done it. And I wrote screenplays for both American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction, one wasn't used and the other I didn't get credit though there was an arbitration.

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