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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'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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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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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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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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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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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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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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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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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I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
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