American - Director | April 18, 1972 -
I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
Eli Roth
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
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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.
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Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.
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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.
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I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
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You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
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