James Wan Quotes
The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important for me and the kind of films I make.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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I love so many styles of music.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going to like or not like, and doing test screenings and opinion polls. But pay too much mind to that, and you'll wind up with a big pile of mush.
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If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.
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I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.
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The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important for me and the kind of films I make.
