Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

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

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

'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.

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.