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Eli Roth Quotes

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

– Eli Roth

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it’s everywhere.

– Eli Roth

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

– Eli Roth

‘Troll 2’ is one of the rare sequels where you don’t have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

– Eli Roth

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

– Eli Roth

The film, ‘Aftershock,’ for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

– Eli Roth

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

– 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

I need to eliminate ‘like’ from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, ‘That’s seriously like… ‘ I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

– Eli Roth

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn’t walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

– 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

My phobias worsen as I get older. I’m scared of flying, driving. I’m terrified of sharks. I’m a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

– Eli Roth

It’s just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It’s never going to be as good as the first one.

– Eli Roth

There’s a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.

– Eli Roth

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

– Eli Roth

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn’t get ‘Cabin Fever’ made that fast I thought I’d failed.

– 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 just teach at film schools – you know, teach children.

– Eli Roth

‘Eraserhead’ is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn’t narratively make sense. Stuff’s happening, but you honestly feel like you’re in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you’ve seen it.

– Eli Roth

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head – the characters talking all at once – and I have to write to make them stop.

– Eli Roth

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 about girls I knew really, really well and I’d just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

– Eli Roth

Anytime you’re the first to speak out against something, there’s going to be a backlash.

– Eli Roth

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 laugh. The laugh doesn’t wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.

– 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

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it’s very production-friendly and there’s terrific talent down there.

– Eli Roth

‘Cabin Fever’ was very much inspired by ‘The Thing.’ It’s really a perfect guy’s horror movie: There’s no love story, it’s just straight-up horror. And it’s so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it’s really terrific.

– Eli Roth

There’s something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you’re going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there’s also something very thrilling and exciting about it.

– Eli Roth

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 also act in films, although he’s primarily an actor.

– Eli Roth

I feel like in the ’90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

– Eli Roth

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

– Eli Roth

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

– Eli Roth

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