Eli Roth Quotes
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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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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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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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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Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
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I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
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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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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
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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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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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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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I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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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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Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.
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'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.