Eli Roth Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

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

“Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.”

“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.”

“I have a strong art-history background.”

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

“Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.”

“Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.”

“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.”

“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.”