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" What's important for me is staying healthy. "
Eli Roth
Healthy
Important
Me
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" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "
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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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" Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. "
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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 historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. "
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Epic
Historical
" 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 want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. "
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See
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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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Enjoy
Last
" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "
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DVD
Edition
" 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
" Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' "
Eli Roth
Her
Best
Horror
" '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. "
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Weird
Sense
You
" 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
Experience
Time
Ride
" 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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Fun
Video Games
You
" Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. "
Eli Roth
Twitter
You
Wonderful
" Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids. "
Eli Roth
Kids
Camp
Love
" You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. "
Eli Roth
Boston
Born
Baseball
" I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet. "
Eli Roth
Some
Great
Awesome
" 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
" 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
" I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero. "
Eli Roth
View
Suicide
Hero
" 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
" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "
Eli Roth
Charge
Always
Responsible
" If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. "
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Having Fun
Done
You
" 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. "
Eli Roth
Legs
Over
Weird
" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "
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Time
Habit
Girl
" Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. "
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You
Life Is A
Dead
" Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way. "
Eli Roth
Horror
You
Be Different
" I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies. "
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Mean
Really
Movies
" 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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Me
Director
Want