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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
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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Everybody

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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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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 fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
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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 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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Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
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You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.
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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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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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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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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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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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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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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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