What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because… — 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 think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer. If someone hunts a lion, it's like: "Wow, they're brave!" But… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging. — 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 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
All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence." — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying.… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 women are… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
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 Image