Eli Roth

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.