Quotes from Eli Roth

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

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

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

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

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

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

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.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

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.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.