Eli Roth

Eli Roth

Filmmaker

Eli Roth is a filmmaker known for his innovative horror films like 'Hostel,' which explore themes of fear and creativity.

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Born
April 15, 1972
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"Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!""

Venice Want Casting
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"For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit."

Girl Crazy Long
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"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."

Body Legs Bleeding
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"If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director."

Jobs Home Blood
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"I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars."

Stars Writing Space
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"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."

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

Mean Get Up Walks
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"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."

Thinking People Worry
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"So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'"

Stars School Night
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"For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side."

Real Gun Cynical
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"I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie."

Mother Years Watches
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"If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done."

Fun Done Ifs
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"I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies."

Mean Movie Love
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"When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts."

Directors Body Scene
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"People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie."

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

Stars Needs Bigs
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"I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable."

Thinking People Sick
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