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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it. I was like: Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this? I was prepping Hostel.
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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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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 have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
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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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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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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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