Quotes About Eli Roth

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

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

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.

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.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.