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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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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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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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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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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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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.
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