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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

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.

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.

I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

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

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

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

I have a strong art-history background.

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.

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

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

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

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

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.

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.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

I like movies like Mother's Day, where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

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

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

I have control issues. For sure, no question.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

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

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

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

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

'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.

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

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

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

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

If you don't want to be scared in a horror film, don't close your eyes. Close your ears.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

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

What's important for me is staying healthy.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

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

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

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Even the European critics ... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

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

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'