James Wan Quotes
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
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Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
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And they picketh it up and laideth it in a Ziploc bag
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Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
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Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
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About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.
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I took a break from horror; I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.
