Bret Talks Glitterati, Informers, More

Another interview with Bret, this time at the AV Club. They hit on a bunch of topics, including the American Psycho musical, Glitterati and where he gets his material.

Well, they are autobiographical in the sense that they reflect who I was at a particular moment in my life. There was talk of a memoir, and I realized why I couldn't write a memoir, because the books are the memoir - they completely sum up how I was feeling, what I was thinking about, what my obsessions were, what I was fantasizing about, who I was, in a fictional context over the last 25 years or so. I don't really look at writing as like, "Oh yeah, I went out with Donna and Frank the other night, and she said something really interesting, and God, the way he lit his cigarette was kind of a cool thing. I'm gonna jot that down and put that in the book I'm working on." It just doesn't work that way. I don't know how it works. I don't know why I write what I write. I mean, it's impossible to talk about. I don't know.

AVC: A lot of Rules Of Attraction fans would ask you if Glitterati will ever see the light of day.

BEE: For many legal reasons, it will never see the light of day. You can't really show Glitterati in public, it's not possible. There are a lot of people who would be very upset. I don't even know if they got permission from a lot of the people in it, which might be a big problem, why it's only shown privately.

Roger's obsessed with containment of this. I think it would ruin marriages. [Laughs] I think what they shot is... I think it'll be a long time before they can show this movie. I think Kip Pardue would be okay with it, maybe. But it's basically about 90 minutes of him in character actually seducing women throughout Europe. Much of this was shot late at night, and people didn't care. I just don't know what you could do with it. You can't really show this movie in public.

Thanks to Greg for the heads up on the interview.