When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.

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

I have a strong art-history background.

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.

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

'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.