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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

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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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I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
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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 think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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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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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 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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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
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I don't want people to feel: Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic. I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.
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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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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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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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Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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