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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
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great.
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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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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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Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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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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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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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'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 never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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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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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.
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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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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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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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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.
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