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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. "

Eli Roth

Chair

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Stress

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. "

" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "

" I would love to do a musical! "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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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