I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.