229 Quotes by Eli Roth

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

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it’s nothing worse than what’s been done already and that wasn’t done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I’d just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you’re in.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it’s everywhere.

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they’ll respond to it and enjoy it.

I like movies like Mother’s Day, where you watch it, and you’ve liked it for years as a horror movie.

What’s important for me is staying healthy.

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