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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. "

Eli Roth

Fast

Myself

Crazy

" When people direct insults at me, I can take it. "

" Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. "

" Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids. "

" I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down. "

" Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. "

" The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. "

" 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

Well

" I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. "

" Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. "

" Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' "

" If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. "

Eli Roth

Really

Someone

" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "

" Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre. "

Eli Roth

Feel

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house. "

" I can think of endless horrible things to do to people! "

" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "

" I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies. "

" '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. "

" I have a strong art-history background. "

Eli Roth

Background

Strong

" Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. "

" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "