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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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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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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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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
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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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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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