(on the film adaptations of Bret Easton Ellis books Less Than Zero (1987) and American Psycho (2000)) Those two movies have stripped away his literary devices, and the filmmakers are just trying to tell the story. If you strip away Bret`s devices, you strip away his themes - they`re part and parcel of each other.
- Roger Avary(on the characters in The Rules of Attraction (2002) and them as people) Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn`t write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You`d be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, "I love these characters".
- Roger Avary