Eli Roth Quotes

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 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.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

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

I have control issues. For sure, no question.

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

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

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

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Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

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

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.

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 felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

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

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.

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.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

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

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

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

I have a strong art-history background.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

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.

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

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

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

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

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

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've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'