If You Don’t Want To Be Scared

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.

I Saw Alien When I Was 8 Years Old. To Me, It Was Like A Combination Of Jaws And Star Wars And That's The Movie That Made Me Want To Be A Director.

You Do Need An Outlet To Release All Of Those Fears. You Build It Up And Then, When You Go To A Movie Theater, It's The Last Place That It's Socially Acceptable To Be Terrified. It's Saying That, For The Next 90 Minutes, You're Allowed To Be Afraid And You're Not A Coward For Feeling That Way.

Pulp Fiction Won The Palme D'or And People Said: "wait A Minute, He's Actually Smart And He Knows What He's Doing!" I Feel That With Hostel, Any Time You Make A Film Like That It's Going To Illicit A Strong Reaction And You Can't Worry About That.

Natural Disasters Are Terrifying - That Loss Of Control, This Feeling That Something Is Just Going To Randomly End Your Life For Absolutely No Reason Is Terrifying. But, What Scares Me Is The Human Reaction To It And How People Behave When The Rules Of Civility And Society Are Obliterated.