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Eli Roth Inspirational Quotes (79)

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I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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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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It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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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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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
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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'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.
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The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.
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The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
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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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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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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.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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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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You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.
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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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I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
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Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
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I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
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