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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
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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 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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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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 get a little too obsessive with work.
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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 felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
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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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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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