I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

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.

Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

Step into the spotlight and rock the brand of you!

I am not a Damsel In Distress who needs a Prince Charming. I am more of Rani Laxmi Bai who rides a Sturdy Horse.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.