I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

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

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

With 'Hostel II' I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.