James Wan Quotes
'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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Ultimately, the success of America's market economy depends on trust. This includes trust between buyers and sellers, between lenders and borrowers, and between investors and the companies in which they invest.
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It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Nothing is as exciting - or as nerve-wracking - as being the new girl. Whether it's your first day of school or you're starting a dream job, if there's one thing that makes a first impression a lot less daunting, it's a really, really good hair day.
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I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.
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'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.
