"Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts."
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"I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house."
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"You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand."
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"I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears."
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"I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials."
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"Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things."
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"The scariest people are usually the sweetest."
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"Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?"
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"I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies."
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"'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."
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"I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it."
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"What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies."
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"I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are."
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"You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'"
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"I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent."
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"There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it."
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"With 'Hostel II' I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!"
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"Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash."
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"Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way."
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"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."
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