American Psycho

American Psycho (2000), directed by Mary Harron , novel by Bret Easton Ellis , screenplay by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner .

• Bateman: You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and then play around with your blood.
• Bateman: I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now.
• Bateman: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, hut there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping you and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
• Bateman: Is that the Ransom file? Thanks. Don't wear that outfit again.
  Jean: Ummm...what? I didn't hear you.
  Bateman: I said "Do not wear that outfit again." Wear a dress. A skirt or something.
  Jean: You don't like this, I take it?
  Bateman: Come on, you're prettier than that.
  Jean: Thanks, Patrick.
  Bateman: I'm not here. And high heels. I like high heels.
• Evelyn: Well, you hate that job anyway. Why don't you just quit? You don't have to work.
  Bateman: Because I...want...to...fit...in.
• Bateman: Oh come on, Bryce. There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about. Sure our foreign policy is important, but there are more pressing problems at hand.
  Bryce: Like what?
  Bateman: Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. But we can't ignore our social needs. either We have to stop people from abusing the welfare system. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights while also promoting equal rights for women but change the abortion laws to protect the right to life yet still somehow maintain women's freedom of choice. We also have to control the influx of illegal immigrants. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values and curb graphic sex and violence on TV, in movies, in pop music, everywhere. Most importantly we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.
  Carruthers: Patrick, how thought-provoking.
• Bateman: Why don't you get a job? If you're so hungry, why don't you get a job?
• Bateman: I have all the characteristics of a human being- flesh, blood, skin, hair-but not a single clear, identifiable emotion except for greed, and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside me and I don't know why.
• Bateman: Hey, I'm a child of divorce. Give me a break.
• Bateman: I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
• Bateman: That's a very fine Chardonnay you're drinking. I want you to clean your vagina. No. From behind. Get on your knees.
• Van Patten: A good personality consists of a chick with a little hardbody who will satisfy all sexual demands without being too slutty about things and who will essentially keep her dumb fucking mouth shut.
• Bateman: Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?
  Van Patten: Ed Gein? Maitre d' at Canal Bar?
  Bateman: No, serial killer, Wisconsin in the fifties. He was an interesting guy.
  McDermott: So what did Ed say?
  Bateman: He said, "When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."
  McDermott: What does the other part of him think?
  Bateman: What her head would look like on a stick.

Major cast

• Christian Bale — Patrick Bateman
• Justin Theroux — Timothy Bryce
• Josh Lucas — Craig McDermott
• Bill Sage — David Van Patten
• Chloë Sevigny — Jean
• Reese Witherspoon — Evelyn Williams
• Samantha Mathis — Courtney Rawlinson
• Matt Ross — Luis Carruthers
• Jared Leto — Paul Allen
• Willem Dafoe — Donald Kimball
• Cara Seymour — Christie

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