Eli Roth Quotes

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.