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" Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids. "
Eli Roth
Kids
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" Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist. "
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" I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "
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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 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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" I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it. "
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" I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house. "
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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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" The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. "
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" I can think of endless horrible things to do to people! "
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" I have control issues. For sure, no question. "
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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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" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "
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" A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years. "
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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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" 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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" Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. "
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" What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children. "
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" There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane. "
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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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" You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service. "
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" Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way. "
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