Imperial Bedrooms Quotes

“That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“There are so many things Blair doesn’t get about me, so many things she ultimately overlooked, and things that she would never know, and there would always be a distance between us because there were too many shadows everywhere. Had she ever made promises to a faithless reflection in the mirror? Had she ever cried because she hated someone so much? Had she ever craved betrayal to the point where she pushed the crudest fantasies into reality, coming up with sequences that she and nobody else could read, moving the game as you play it? Could she locate the moment she went dead inside? Does she remember the year it took to become that way? The fades, the dissolves, the rewritten scenes, all the things you wipe away—I now want to explain all these things to her but I know I never will, the most important one being: I never liked anyone and I’m afraid of people.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“This isn't a script," Julian says. "It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the pain I felt, the betrayal — I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“¿Qué es lo peor que te ha pasado, Jimmy?", lee fuera de cuadro alguien que hace el papel de una chica llamada Claire. "El amor incondicional", responde el chico, y el personaje de Jimmy se vuelve con fingida vergüenza, pero el chico lee mal la frase, poniendo el énfasis donde no toca, sonriendo cuando debería haberse puesto totalmente serio, convirtiéndolo en el remate de un chiste cuando nunca lo ha sido.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Me mira fijamente, y la mirada que le devuelvo es el principio de todo, y me imagino el futuro: "¿Por qué me odias?", imagino que dice la voz angustiada de una chica. "¿Qué te he hecho?, imagino que grita otra persona.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“(...) estaba tan por encima de la ciudad que tenías la impresión de contemplar un mundo enorme y abandonado que se extendía en cuadrículas anónimas, una vista que confirmaba que estabas mucho más solo de lo que creías.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Cada día hay todo un ejército de retrasadas impacientes por ser deshonradas.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Siempre existe la posibilidad de que ocurra algo aterrador, y normalmente ocurre.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“La noria vacía se alza ante nosotros ucando pasamos por su lado, un círculo impreciso apenas visible en la bruma, y, si exceptuamos unos pescadores mexicanos, no hay nadie alrededor.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“El silencio es una risa burlona. El silencio roba algo.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Nunca me ha gustado nadie y e da miedo la gente.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“The director mentions the whispers about Clifton's sexual orientation, a supposed gig on a porn site years ago, a rumor about a very famous actor and a tryst in Santa Barbara and Clifton's denial in a Rolling Stone cover story about the very famous actor's new movie which Clifton had a small part in: 'We're so into girls it's ridiculous.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms