Eli Roth Quotes

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• It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
• When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
• You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
• I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
• I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on…
• I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie…
• The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the…
• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.
• I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
• If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.
• If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.
• So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that…
• For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made…
• Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam…
• I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and…
• I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put…
• I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest…
• I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with…
• Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought…
• One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to…

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