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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

Eli Roth

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Newton
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Eli Raphael Roth
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I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.
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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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I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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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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'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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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 felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
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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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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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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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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
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When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
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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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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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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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
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