What Is Important To Me Is That

'beatrice Cenci' Was An Amazing Film. If It Were Released Today It'd Win Best Picture. It's So Well Done, It's So Contemporary, And The Filmmaking Is So Smart.

The Film, 'aftershock,' For Me Is Really About How The Minor Problems In Life That We Think Are So Major Ultimately Mean Nothing When A Tragedy Happens, When A Real Problem Happens.

'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 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.

Even The European Critics... They Said Hostel Is The Smartest Film They'd Seen On Capitalism And How It's Gone Too Far.