I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

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.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.

In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.