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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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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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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'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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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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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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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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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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