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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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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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Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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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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When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.
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I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
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I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.
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I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.
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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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Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
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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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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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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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I have control issues. For sure, no question.
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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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What's important for me is staying healthy.
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My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it.
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