You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

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.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

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