When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

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

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are objectified, well here you go! Here's a man being objectivized but now it's under the guise of art.