Eli Roth
Eli Roth
Eli Raphael Rothis an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for directing the horror film Hostel and its sequel, Hostel: Part II. He is also known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Awardand a BFCA Critic's Choice Award. Journalists have included him in a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack for their explicitly violent and bloody horror films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 April 1972
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can go to theaters and see movies unrated and that people know its not real violence. It's all pretend. It's all fake. It's just acting. It's just magic tricks.
Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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.
All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."
I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.