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

The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

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

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

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 best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.