Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials..

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the anti….

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

I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on t….

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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are ….

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far..

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash..

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "….

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things..

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it..

You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third be….

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand..

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be ….

You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially….

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done b….

When people direct insults at me, I can take it..

Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to see us get to a point where ….

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird thin….

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director..

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. I want nudity. I want sex and violence mixed together. What's wrong with that? Am I t….