Eli Roth Quotes

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.

I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

I get a little nauseous and disoriented watching 3D, but as a kid I loved it and I was really into it, so if a movie can be in 3D, then why not?

I've barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell's soup mixed with something else.

I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.

I love watching audiences scream.

I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

I like audiences to crane their necks.