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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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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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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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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Public unions are big money.
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All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.
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Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.
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The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
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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.
