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I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.
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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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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 think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.
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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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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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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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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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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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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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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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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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