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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 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.
Eli Roth
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
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I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
Eli Roth -
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.
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I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.
Eli Roth -
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
Eli Roth
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When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
Eli Roth -
Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
Eli Roth -
Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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