Eli Quotes

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

We can't dispose of the everydayness of people's struggles. We have to build a world that is ultimately supposed to be, very simply, everybody doing what they are happiest doing.

At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!

Don't worry about what other people think. Do what makes you happy. Do whatever it takes to make the people in your life happy. Court joy as if it were the air that you needed to breath[e].

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.

Do for the others more than you do for yourself

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!

Get with it, or get left behind.

The real reason we have faces, " Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.

There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty.

Say yes, Jordan, ” he said, shifting closer.“No, ” I said.Owen smiled. “Close enough.” And then he kissed me.

Tonight she was just plain Liz, nobody extraordinary, paranormal, or otherwise.Tomorrow, that would change.

It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.

The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.

A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes.

Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.