I Write From a Place of Feeling
2023 · Louisiana Channel
The long conversation, filmed in Copenhagen in June 2023: reading, writing, and staying true to yourself. The best single hour on how he actually works.
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Nine hours of him talking.
Interviews, craft, his own podcast, and one television archive.
Only primary sources: Ellis on camera or at the microphone, never a third party commenting on his work. Every video was checked against YouTube on 8 September 2026; the channel named under each title is the one that actually hosts it.
Advice to Aspiring Writers
2023 · Louisiana Channel
His advice to young writers, delivered with a smile and in one sentence: read. Everything he knows came from reading.
On Cancel Culture
2023 · Louisiana Channel
A short, direct statement of his position: people should be having a conversation rather than cancelling one another.
American Psycho, Hollywood and #MeToo
2018 · ReasonTV
A long interview with Nick Gillespie, wide-ranging and combative, recorded around the publication of the essays that became White.
My Generation Wanted to Be Offended
2023 · UnHerd
Filmed for the release of The Shards: whether there is still room for radical art, and what his own generation actually wanted.
American Psycho: Ellis, Harron, Bale
2000 · Manufacturing Intellect
The 2000 television conversation with Mary Harron and Christian Bale, at the moment the film reversed the novel's reputation. An archival upload.
Ellis asks Chuck Palahniuk
Bret Easton Ellis
From his own podcast, on the author's channel: Ellis puts a direct personal question to the author of Fight Club.
The Kanye West interview
theflyby
One of the most talked-about episodes of the podcast, in a third-party upload. Ellis interviews, and mostly listens.
The Karyn Kusama interview
theflyby
Ellis with the director of Destroyer and Jennifer's Body: an hour on how films actually get made.
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