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.

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

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

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

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

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.