Bret Easton Ellis

Another movie about boxers.

Another sidekick who was being sort of funny without...

Trying to be funny, I guess.

Right.

But the Christian Bale character in The Fighter, I mean, is such a major drug addict that I don't know if it's funny or not.

I mean, he doesn't get those comic riffs that Joe Pesci does in Raging Bull.

You know, those rages that are so outlandish that you have to laugh at them.

And especially the banter between him and De Niro in that is...

but it's just so profane and crazy and based on so little.

They get pissed off at each other for so little.

I think it's just the nature of how we read books and how books are dealt with in the culture today.

They definitely don't have the same place that they do when American Psycho was published or at least a novel.

Let's not say there are certain – Malcolm Gladwell has books come out that sell a zillion copies and people talk about those books.

That's nonfiction too.

But the big novel that comes out that gets everyone talking –

For a long time, for a sustained period.

I don't know if it really exists in the culture so much or it's in a much smaller part of the culture.

So if American Psycho came out now, would there be a lot of talk about the violence and the pornography in it?

Compared to what else is available to us?

Well, Fifty Shades of Grey is like nothing compared to what American Psycho is.