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" I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying. "

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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. "

Eli Roth

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

" I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. "

" Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. "

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

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

" Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there. "

" 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. "

" Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. "

" I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it. "

" 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific. "

" What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies. "

" I get a little too obsessive with work. "

" People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie. "

Eli Roth

Horror

People

" 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? "

" I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it. "

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

" When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation. "

" I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I have control issues. For sure, no question. "