What's important for me is staying healthy.

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.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

I don't believe in karma.