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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
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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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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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: Nobody wants violence.
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When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
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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 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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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
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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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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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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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Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
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People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
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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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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
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