Eli Roth

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

— Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

— Eli Roth

I get a little too obsessive with work.

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

— Eli Roth

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical…

— Eli Roth

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the…

— Eli Roth

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

— Eli Roth

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

— Eli Roth

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

— Eli Roth

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for…

— Eli Roth

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

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's…

— Eli Roth

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it.…

— Eli Roth

With 'Hostel II' I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going…

— Eli Roth

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because…

— Eli Roth

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

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

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

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

You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans.…

— Eli Roth

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But…

— Eli Roth

Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over…

— Eli Roth

The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to…

— Eli Roth

I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going…

— Eli Roth

Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to…

— Eli Roth

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

— Eli Roth

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

— Eli Roth

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

— Eli Roth

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

— Eli Roth

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth