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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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I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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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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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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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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I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
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So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'
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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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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
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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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It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
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I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
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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 have control issues. For sure, no question.
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Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.
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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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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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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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