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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.
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Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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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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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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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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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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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The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great.
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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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