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 Sandler’s comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow’s comedy. They’re all comedy, but they’re all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way. – Eli Roth
Some disaster movies look like you’re watching someone else play video games. They’re fun but it’s not real. – Eli Roth
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. – Eli Roth
There’s fear in everything, but we can’t just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we’d become paralyzed by them. – Eli Roth
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 a case-by-case basis and see what that part is. – Eli Roth
I think filmmakers, in general… There are some awesome, really great filmmakers – but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet. – Eli Roth
When you’re making a television show, it’s about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director. – Eli Roth
I have the infinite galaxy from ‘2001’ as my screensaver – so if I space out while I’m writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars. – Eli Roth
Horror movies are the best date movies. There’s no wondering, ‘When do I put my arm around her?’ – 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 is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they’re beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. – 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 totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that’s in other languages and not using stars and using real people – things that they generally don’t do in mainstream films. – Eli Roth
Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. – Eli Roth
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 second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it. – Eli Roth
I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective. – Eli Roth
Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn’t until the ’50s that people started talking about it. – Eli Roth
