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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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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 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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I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.
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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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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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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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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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You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: Wow, well wait a second! Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.
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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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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.
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I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
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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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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it. I was like: Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this? I was prepping Hostel.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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