I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.

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

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.