Eli Roth Quotes
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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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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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'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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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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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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When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
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If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
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As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
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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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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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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
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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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You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
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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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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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When people direct insults at me, I can take it.