Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre. "
Eli Roth
Feel
You
Like
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Eli Roth
People
War
Age
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Society
Face
Think
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Seriously
Talking
Need
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Free
You
Nice
" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "
Eli Roth
Time
Habit
Girl
" I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down. "
Eli Roth
Horror
Feel
Lost
" I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "
Eli Roth
Own
Me
Make
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Thought
Story
You
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Think
Life
Me
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Control
People
Life
" There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it. "
Eli Roth
Judge
World
Camera
" 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? "
Eli Roth
Spirit
Body
Culture
" '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. "
Eli Roth
Waste Time
Time
Watching
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Movies
Thought
You
" Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star. "
Eli Roth
Stars
You
Some
" When people direct insults at me, I can take it. "
Eli Roth
Take
I Can
Insults
" I have a strong art-history background. "
Eli Roth
Background
Strong
" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "
Eli Roth
First
Against
Going
" The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. "
Eli Roth
People
Horror
You
" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "
Eli Roth
Charge
Always
Responsible
" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "
Eli Roth
Vanilla
DVD
Edition
" People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie. "
Eli Roth
Go
Horror
People
" If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. "
Eli Roth
Really
Someone
Up
" Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. "
Eli Roth
People
Holocaust
Even
" '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. "
Eli Roth
Weird
Sense
You
" I get a little too obsessive with work. "
Eli Roth
Too
Little
Get
" Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing. "
Eli Roth
Like
More
Well
" Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. "
Eli Roth
Fun
Video Games
You
" 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
Name
See
People
" Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. "
Eli Roth
Writing
Become
Creative