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.

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

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

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

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

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

'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've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

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

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

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

There's a way of listening in the dark that's so intense for girls. You can feel the insides of your ears.

Dying is Easy, its Living that's hard

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.