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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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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.
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I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.
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My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it.
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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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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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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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'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
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Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it. I was like: Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this? I was prepping Hostel.
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.
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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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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'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: Wow, well wait a second! Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.
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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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