If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.' — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film." — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
'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,… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
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… — Eli Roth Copy Share
Shooting at Quentin Tarantino movie was like a masterclass in directing. Although I went back literally right into rehearsal, started shooting... while I was… — Eli Roth Copy Share
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles… — Eli Roth Copy Share
I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are… — Eli Roth Copy Share
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to… — Eli Roth Copy Share
I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence.… — Eli Roth Copy Share
A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you… — Eli Roth Copy Share
The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like… — Eli Roth Copy Share
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. — Eli Roth Copy Share
I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits… — Eli Roth Copy Share
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it. — Eli Roth Copy Share
I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't… — Eli Roth Copy Share
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