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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Eli Roth

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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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'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've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
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My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it.
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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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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 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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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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Chile could work as a double for L.A. it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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