Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
Eli RothWomen became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.
Eli RothEven post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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