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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Newton
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Eli Raphael Roth
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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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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing! I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
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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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Chile could work as a double for L.A. it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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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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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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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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When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.
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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.
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