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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

Eli Roth

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
Disturbed
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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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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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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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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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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I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
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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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So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'
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I don't want people to feel: Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic. I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.
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When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
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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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