What's important for me is staying healthy.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.

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

You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.