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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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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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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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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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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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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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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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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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'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.
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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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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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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.
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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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