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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. "
Eli Roth
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" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "
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" 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. "
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" What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies. "
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" When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?' "
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" I get a little too obsessive with work. "
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" Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. "
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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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" 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 would love to do a musical! "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there. "
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" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "
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" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "
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" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "
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" I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies. "
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" Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star. "
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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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" I have a strong art-history background. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another. "
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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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