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.

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

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self