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I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

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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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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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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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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about 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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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You can't help but be influenced by the things you love. Read more at: https://tr.im/ezGbq
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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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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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Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
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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 have control issues. For sure, no question.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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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 can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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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 want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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