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" If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. "
Eli Roth
Really
Someone
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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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" As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed. "
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" I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time. "
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" Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. "
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" '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. "
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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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" You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. "
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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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" 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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" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "
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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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Head
" 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. "
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" Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. "
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" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "
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Always
Responsible
" Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. "
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Twitter
You
Wonderful
" Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist. "
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Being
Labeled
Everyone
" 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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Video Games
You
" 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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" When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. "
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" You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.' "
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Horror
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" It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre. "
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Feel
You
Like
" 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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Chair
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Stress
" I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "
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" People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie. "
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" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "
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" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "
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" What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies. "
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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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" I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. "
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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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