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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
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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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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 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 feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
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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 have control issues. For sure, no question.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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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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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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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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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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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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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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