229 Quotes by Eli Roth

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

In the box-office slump of the last year, these movies are the only movies that audiences are responding to. Both Saw II and 'Hostel' were made for US$4 million, and they're beating movies that cost US$200 million dollars.

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

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. I want nudity. I want sex and violence mixed together. What's wrong with that? Am I the only one? I don't think so.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.

I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.

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