Bret Easton Ellis should return to the `80s--the 1880s

In an interview on Movieline, 1980s wunderkind Bret Easton Ellis (AMERICAN PSYCHO, BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY, LESS THAN ZERO), while talking about the movie adaptation of AMERICAN PSYCHO, delivered himself of this butt nugget with regard to female directors:

>> BEE: ... There's something about the medium of film itself that I think requires the male gaze.

ML: What would that be?

BEE: We're watching, and we're aroused by looking, whereas I don't think women respond that way to films, just because of...