229 Quotes by Eli Roth

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head – the characters talking all at once – and I have to write to make them stop.

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.

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people’s imaginations run wild with it.

It’s very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

I’ll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn’t until the ’50s that people started talking about it.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn’t walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

I saw ‘Alien’ when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that’s the movie that made me want to be a director.

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