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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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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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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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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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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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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 love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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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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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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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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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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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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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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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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'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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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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There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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