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I'm a fucking psycho," I laugh.
Even before I had seen Psycho, I felt like I'd seen it.
Bellamy nervously tried to interview this psycho ("I don't like people looking at me in the eye") without making eye contact.
Even though I've since seen everything from Halloween to Psycho, I still think of it as one of the creepiest films ever made.
Asked if Bateman was "an early sign of the zeitgeist", Easton Ellis replies: "Whenever I am asked to talk American Psycho, I have to remember why I was writing it at the time and what it meant to me.
And yes, when I wrote American Psycho I had a huge note on my desk saying 'NO METAPHORS!', because Patrick Bateman can't see something as being like anything else.
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But he's never gonna say anything which is unconsidered, so that's what makes him different from most of the headcases and psychos I've played, who lash out.
I saw Psycho when I was around eight.
I saw Psycho when I was 21, and it had a permanently disruptive effect on my psyche.
"I bought American Psycho when I lived in New Zealand," recalled one reader.
But the first thing that comes to mind about the year in between was seeing Psycho, which I'd been looking forward to since a radio programme I'd produced the previous October, when Hitchcock had enticingly described Psycho as "my first real horror film".
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