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" If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. "
Eli Roth
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" I have control issues. For sure, no question. "
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" What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children. "
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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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" Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. "
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" Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids. "
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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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" '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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" 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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" When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation. "
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" Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. "
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" 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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" I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "
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" I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director. "
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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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" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "
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" Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing. "
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" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "
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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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" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "
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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 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. "
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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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