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
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
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie. — 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
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. I want nudity. I want sex and violence mixed… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is… — 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
I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?"… — 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
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?' — 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
