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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.

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.

From Eli Roth

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

From Eli Roth

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.

From Eli Roth

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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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.

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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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I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

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