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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.

Eli Roth

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
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Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.
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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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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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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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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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I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
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As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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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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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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Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.
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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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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