"To figure out a character, I try to look for something that's not in the screenplay—a little secret they carry around with them. Sometimes it's allowed to show itself, sometimes it isn't, yet it's always there.
"Robert Downey Jr. and I both decided that our two guys had been lovers at one point. It wasn't referred to at all, but that was the one choice made in that film that I ended up being pleased with, because it informed everything that happened. There's a certain understanding between two people who've been lovers that's not there in two people who haven't." James Spader on LESS THAN ZERO (1987), Interview Magazine, 1993
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
-Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
In the prison under the castle Allaze, in the dark, moldy cells where the greatest criminals in Mellinor spent the remainder of their lives counting rocks to stave off madness, Eli Monpress was trying to wake up a door.
-The Spirit Thief, Rachel Aaron
The journalists arrived before the coffin did.
-Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Jessica Townsend
Are you a bored, rich, white person who covers up your horribly empty and soulless existence with casual sex, drugs, and alcohol? Congratulations, you are a character in a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
Less Than Zero: in the decadent Los Angeles scene, a once inseparable trio dissolves shortly after high school graduation! Julian Wells, the wildcard of the group with a growing drug problem, is brilliantly portrayed by Robert Downer Jr.
ENDLESS LOVE (1981)
COCAINE: ONE MAN'S SEDUCTION (1983)
THE FAMILY TREE (1983)
A KILLER IN THE FAMILY (1983)
THE NEW KIDS (1985)
TUFF TURF (1985)
LESS THAN ZERO (1987)
JACK'S BACK (1988)
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (1989)
WHITE PALACE (1990)
BAD INFLUENCE (1990)
DREAM LOVER (1993)
CRASH (1996)
DRIFTWOOD (1997)
SUPERNOVA (2000)
THE STICKUP (2002)
SECRETARY (2002)
BOSTON LEGAL (2006)
THE OFFICE (2012)
Wheeeeeeere are all the "Less Than Zero/Pretty in Pink crossover" people?
IMAGINE Steff's gone really rogue in their last year whilst Blane's spending more time with Andie and basically becomes Rip, and Blane gets dragged into the Less Than Zero side of things, because Blane's other friend who we don't see in PIP, Julian, needs saving.