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.

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.

You came from love, to live in love, to give away love, and to become love.

In Life, What Would Be Best For You, You Know It Best....

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

It is not easy to dress well.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.