Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'

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.

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

Trump's election has opened many people's eyes in Europe to how valuable the European Union and international cooperation are.

Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven't made a phone call to Russia in years. Don't speak to people from Russia. Not that I wouldn't. I just have nobody to speak to.

I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.