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

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.

Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation.

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.

Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Were you thinking about eating me?

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.