A biography for Eli Rothhasn’t been written yet.
“Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”
“What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.”
“Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.”
“A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.”
“When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'”
“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.”
“Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.”
“Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.”
“You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.”
“I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.”
“Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'”
“If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.”
“I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.”
“You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'”
“What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.”
“I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.”
“When people direct insults at me, I can take it.”