Eli Roth Quotes
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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
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If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
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'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
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There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.
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The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
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I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
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There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
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When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
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I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.
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Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
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You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
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Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.
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I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.