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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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I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
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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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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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As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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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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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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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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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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In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.
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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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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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I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.
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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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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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Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.
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