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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.

Eli Roth

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.
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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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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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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
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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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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
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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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I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
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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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You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
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The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
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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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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
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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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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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