If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

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

I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.

I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are objectified, well here you go! Here's a man being objectivized but now it's under the guise of art.

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

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.