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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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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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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 want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
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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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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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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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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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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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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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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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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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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 think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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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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Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
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