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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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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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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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Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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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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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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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'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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When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
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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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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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The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.
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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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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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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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