Eli Roth Quotes

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

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.

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.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

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.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

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.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

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.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

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

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

I would love to do a musical!

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

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

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

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.

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 that made me want to be a director.

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.

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.

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.

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

I have a strong art-history background.

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

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

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

I get a little too obsessive with work.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

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.

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

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

I have control issues. For sure, no question.

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.

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.