By Daily Mail Reporter
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American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has apologized for a handful of 'douchy' tweets he sent out earlier this month against Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow.
On December 6th, the 48-year-old wrote on Twitter: 'Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she's a very hot woman she's really overrated.'
And after an angered response from women everywhere, a remorseful Mr Ellis has written a 2,200 word apology to the Oscar-winning director for The Daily Beast, saying what he did, 'goes beyond douchiness into another more insensitive realm.'
I'm sorry: American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis (left)? has apologized for a handful of 'douchy' tweets he sent out earlier this month against Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow (right)
'I've taken a lot of hits in my career - they bounce off,' he wrote.
'The armor was built so long ago that I now assume everyone else in the public eye can handle it when they?re shot at. But the outcry over the Bigelow tweets was eye-opening to me in a way that nothing else has ever been. I got it. I heard it.
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'I looked back at what I was doing with those tweets (quickly, unconsciously, hurriedly, drunkenly) and I have to admit they simply back-fired.
'Which is why I?m writing this. No one asked me to write this. I simply write something like this when I'm in pain. And I?ve been slowly feeling a painfulness when reading all of the articles reacting to those tweets.'
'It goes beyond douchiness into another more insensitive realm'
Mr Ellis fired the bizarre and hurried rant against Ms Bigelow after the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle awarded her best director of the year, and awarded her new movie Zero Dark Thirty, about the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden, Best Picture.
She also won an Oscar for her 2009 film, The Hurt locker.
And after calling her 'overrated' because 'she's a very hot woman', he continued his twitter attack.
'Kathryn Bigelow: Strange Days, K-19 The Widowmaker, Blue Steel, The Hurt Locker. Are we talking about visionary filmmaking or just OK junk?'
Controversial: American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis sent out a handful of Tweets earlier this month against Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow
Offensive: Mr Ellis' remarks prompted angered responses from women everywhere
And then: 'I still believe that if "The Hurt Locker" had been directed by a man it would not have won the Oscar for best director.'
A day later, he tweeted: 'Barraged today by people who think I'm "sexist" and "toxic" for thinking the beautiful Kathryn Bigelow is overrated because she's a woman...'
In his lengthy apology, Mr Ellis notes he hasn't actually seen Zero Dark Thirty. He wrote, 'I thought, in the Twitter-moment, can it really be that good? Marc Boal and Kathryn Bigelow and another war film?'
Before adding: 'I thought that in the Bigelow tweets people might find a certain truth... about the hypocrisy of the world, of the Hollywood mindset, beautiful women in the movie biz, reverse sexism, etc.
Hurried attack: Mr Ellis fired the bizarre rant against Ms Bigelow after the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle awarded her best director of the year
'But they ultimately revealed a much more layered sexism that, I guess I thought as a gay man, I could get away with since my supposed vitriol about Bigelow was coming from another ?oppressed? class.
'But in 140 characters it didn?t land that way.'
He has since deleted the tweets, and decided to take a break from tweeting until after he watched Zero Dark Thirty.
His first tweet after the hiatus? 'The most morally dubious, obtuse and overrated movie of 2012: Zero Dark Thirty,' he wrote.
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