Eli Roth

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

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. ”

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. ”

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. ”

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. ”

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

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”