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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Film Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
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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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Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
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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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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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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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'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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I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
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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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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'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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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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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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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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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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