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Eli Roth Quotes

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

– 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 feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

– Eli Roth

You know, the dirty secret in the Director’s Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director’s Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.

– Eli Roth

I think characters are most terrifying when they’re relatable. It’s best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That’s when a movie is most terrifying.

– Eli Roth

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

– Eli Roth

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

– 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 the violence. Then I think they’d get so violent that people would get bored of it.

– Eli Roth

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you’re dead. That’s how I feel about things.

– 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

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter – very responsible, always in charge.

– Eli Roth

You know, I’m from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

– Eli Roth

Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

– Eli Roth

When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone’s mouth is, ‘When’s the next one, when’s the next one, when’s the next one?’

– Eli Roth

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 in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they’ll respond to it and enjoy it.

– Eli Roth

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

– Eli Roth

What’s important for me is staying healthy.

– 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 a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling – atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it’s hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.

– Eli Roth

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