American - Director | April 18, 1972 -
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
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
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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.
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'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.
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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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?'
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I would love to do a musical!
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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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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.
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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.
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