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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
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Eli Raphael Roth
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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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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 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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You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: Wow, well wait a second! Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.
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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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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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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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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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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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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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 get a little too obsessive with work.
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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
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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 don't want people to feel: Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic. I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.
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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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