I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer. If someone hunts a lion, it's like: "Wow, they're brave!" But if they're hunting a deer it's like: "That poor deer!" I know that. I know that guys getting killed is horrible but people have seen it before. You've seen The Evil Dead. With girls, it's like: "I don't want to see that happening..." I know that.

The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel is and people that are going to see it are going for more of what they loved in the original. No one is accidentally going to walk into it, no parent is accidentally going to take their child, and we're not pretending what it is in the advertising. We're saying it's very violent, it's very scary and a continuation of the first one.