List of Eli Roth Quotes

The World Is Changing. Social Media Is A Way To Sell Movies And To Build A Fan Base. The Truth Is That You Have Followers Because They Know You Are Into It And You're Funny And You Like It. I Think It's Great.

All The Copycat Movies Were Always Pg-13 And People Said: "nobody Wants Violence."

Quentin Tarantino Faced The Same Backlash When His Films Came Out Until Eventually People Felt They Were Actually Much Smarter.

Pulp Fiction Won The Palme D'or And People Said: "wait A Minute, He's Actually Smart And He Knows What He's Doing!" I Feel That With Hostel, Any Time You Make A Film Like That It's Going To Illicit A Strong Reaction And You Can't Worry About That.

The Difference Is In Hostel It's In The Theatre - It's In Public But It's In A Private Place. You Have To Actively Make A Choice To Want To Go See It. It's Not Being Forced On Anyone. Whereas 24 You Can Be Flipping Channels And It's Right There In Your Living Room. Anyone Has Access To That. But That Just Shows How Mainstream It Is And How People Are Seeing This Stuff On Youtube. People Are Scared Of It. This Is A Subject Matter That Everyone's Talking About And Everyone's Thinking About, Particularly In American Culture.

I Always Feel That There's No Violence In A Movie - It's Not Real, It's A Magic Trick. Nobody Is Really Dying. In Fact, The People That Die In My Movies Have Gone On To Become Extremely Successful!

You'd Be Lucky To Get Tortured To Death In One Of My Films. It's The Best Thing That Could Happen To Your Career. But I'm Very Aware That As Soon As You Put Women In This Situation, All Of A Sudden People Are Like: "wow, Well Wait A Second!" Immediately, People Become Very Sensitive To It.

It's The Difference Between Hunting A Lion And Hunting A Deer. If Someone Hunts A Lion, It's Like: "wow, They're Brave!" But If They're Hunting A Deer It's Like: "that Poor Deer!" I Know That. I Know That Guys Getting Killed Is Horrible But People Have Seen It Before. You've Seen The Evil Dead. With Girls, It's Like: "i Don't Want To See That Happening..." I Know That.

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 Think In The Late '80s And Early '90s Horror Was Dead.

I Want To Have An Ending Where People Say: "that's The Most Shocking Ending I've Ever Seen In A Mainstream Horror Film."

I Felt People Responded To Two Things. One, Obviously, Is The Gore And The Scenes Like The Eye Gauging.