Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

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

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

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.

There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.

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