James Wan Quotes

If you're great, I want to work with you.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Single
  • Day
  • Never

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dance

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Chance
  • Luck

• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Life
  • Holiday
  • Normal

• Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Happy

• I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Financial
  • Discipline

• I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

  

  Liz Carpenter
  • Life
  • Work

• Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.

  

  Jim Sturgess
  • Great
  • Experience

• If you're great, I want to work with you.

  

  James Wan
  • Work
  • Great