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.

You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.

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

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!

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

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

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.