People Quotes by Eli Roth

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

— Eli Roth

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

— Eli Roth

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

— Eli Roth

I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

— Eli Roth

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

— Eli Roth

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

— Eli Roth

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

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

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

— Eli Roth

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

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

— 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

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

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

— Eli Roth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

— Eli Roth

We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and…

— Eli Roth

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the…

— Eli Roth

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

— Eli Roth

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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