James Wan Quotes

I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

James Wan

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Best

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • America
  • History

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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  • Me
  • Write

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
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  • You
  • Feeling

• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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  • Information
  • More

• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
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  • You
  • Criticism

• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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  • Guy
  • Dream

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
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• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
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• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Believe
  • Quality
  • Challenge

• To be able to know that I can push myself a little further than you think you can was so important. And that it's a mental barrier more than anything. You can break through it.

  

  Jason Day
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• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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  • Heaven
  • Woman

• This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • People
  • Men
  • May

• It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

  

  Eric Liu

• In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Beginning
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• I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

  

  James Wan
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