'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.

So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'

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.

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

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

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

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.