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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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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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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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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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