Bret Easton Ellis

You know, there should be... They do it in a... You know, do it in a... Whenever you do a TV show or anything, they do the 30 seconds of silence, which... Room tone or whatever?

Room tone.

It's incredibly hard to pull off.

It's the weirdest thing in the world.

It is a weird human thing.

There'll be one guy with the headphones on, and he's got the boom mic, and he goes...

Okay, everybody.

There's only four people in the room.

I just need to get 30 seconds of silence so I can get room tone.

And he'll go like, and here we go.

And at some point someone will go, Steve, you want to go to Arby's for lunch?

And then he'll go, hold on a second.

Guys, guys, guys, just 30 seconds of room tone.

And he'll get eight seconds in and someone will be like...

And then someone will start walking and the floor will squeak.

And I'll be like, could everyone just carve out 30 seconds of their life and fucking hold still just so we can get the 30 seconds of room tone?

It's weird how tall an order.

All four people remain silent and motionless for 30 seconds.

No one ever says, I need 18 to 22 months of room tone.

They just go, 30 seconds.