Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

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.

Being smart means you learned it well

Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.