Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho was much reviled, much loathed when it was published in 1991. There was a big scandal and I was really surprised that in all the furor, no one said that the book was really funny. As well as being very violent, it was a great Evelyn Waugh-style social satire. Fast forward to 1996. I had my first film, I Shot Andy Warhol, at Sundance, and I’d been getting some very boring mainstream scripts. And then a producer called me up and asked if I’d be interested in looking at a script of American Psycho.
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