When people watch a trailer, they’re judging based on two-and-a-half minutes of material, and if it’s Bruce Willis shooting a gun, cut to AC/DC, some people are going to draw that conclusion. What I really try to do more than anything is show it how it really is, and leave it for the audience to decide, one thing I’m very conscious of as a filmmaker in Hollywood is not telling the audience what to think, or how to think, and you can make the same argument about ‘John Wick’ or ‘Taken.’ Any action movie you can say is a pro-gun movie. It’s giving a story that allows people to discuss a difficult subject. In the same way ‘Get Out’ came out, everyone was allowed to discuss race and racism because of the movie.

Eli Roth

Categorized in : Entertainment

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

loss feelings people

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything... by Eli Roth

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

horror safe way

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible,... by Eli Roth

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.

responsible baby kids

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

creative self writing

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I... by Eli Roth

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

believe kids years

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's sca... by Eli Roth

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

compass my-own film

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

holocaust talking people

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. by Eli Roth

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

rumours wonderful

You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

wasting-time waste firsts

Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

real doe culture

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

vocabulary hate school

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

musical doe song

When people direct insults at me, I can take it. by Eli Roth

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

insult direct people

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

video use people

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

real mean thinking

I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.

craze film fans

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Prefe... by Eli Roth

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

monkeys movie-star twins

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

perspective tragedy thinking

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.

space stars writing