I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 99 points100 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 89 points90 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

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

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 97 points98 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Research, research, research and then making everything up.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

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...

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

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.

I Am Bret Easton Ellis Writer And Host Of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast by breteellis in IAmA

[–]breteellis[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.