I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

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

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

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 think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

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