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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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Preferably
Monkey
Monkeys
Twins
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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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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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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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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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I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
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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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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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 realized that I can't multitask in the writing department I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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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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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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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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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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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.
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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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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 can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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