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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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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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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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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 get a little too obsessive with work.
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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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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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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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