The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

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

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

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

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."