Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

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