When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

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.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

Life is enough grace.

Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.