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" I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down. "
Eli Roth
Horror
Feel
Lost
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" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "
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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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" I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. "
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" I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor. "
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" You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. "
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" The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it. "
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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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" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "
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" My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. "
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