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" 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it. "

Eli Roth

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" Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. "

" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "

" I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars. "

" The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. "

" 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. "

" When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body. "

" '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. "

" You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. "

" Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. "

" I have a strong art-history background. "

Eli Roth

Background

Strong

" As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. "

" I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it. "

" I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films. "

" The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens. "

Eli Roth

Think

Life

" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "

" One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing. "

" I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears. "

" Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. "

" 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. "

" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "

" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "

" 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. "

" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "

" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "

" Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist. "

" I get a little too obsessive with work. "

" If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. "

" 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. "