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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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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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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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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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Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
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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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The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
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As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
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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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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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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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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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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking 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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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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