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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.
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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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I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
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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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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
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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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You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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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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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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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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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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