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

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.

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

My motto for creat

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

The wounds I carry, she carries them too. The unshed tears in my head flow through her heart too .

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.