"I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me."
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"Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist."
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"One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it."
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"Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it."
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"Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out."
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"Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there."
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"I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film."
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"Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids."
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"As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge."
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"Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with."
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"The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel is and people that are going to see it are going for more of what they loved in the original. No one is accidentally going to walk into it, no parent is accidentally going to take their child, and we're not pretending what it is in the advertising. We're saying it's very violent, it's very scary and a continuation of the first one."
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"My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it."
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"Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the mall is just brain-dead, wandering around. Capitalism gone awry, and the worst parts of human nature coming out. All these different things that people read into the films that are all there, very strong anti-Bush sentiments that went into making those films. It's great. I like it when people get it the second or third time, when someone else points it out to them. They don't realize it's been there all along. Those are my favorite movies."
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"Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in."
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"I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory."
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"When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up."
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"I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything."
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"I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school."
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"I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can!"
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"Shooting at Quentin Tarantino movie was like a masterclass in directing. Although I went back literally right into rehearsal, started shooting... while I was doing it I had to write my Grindhouse trailer and I added two days of shooting. My brother was producing Hostel and the Grindhouse trailer and I was like: "Gabe, just figure this out!""
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