I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.

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

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

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

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

'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.