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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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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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As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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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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So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'
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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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