James Wan Quotes
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I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.
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I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned 'Saw' as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.
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People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.
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As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, moving - so I'm not actually privy to all the weird stuff that's happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that's what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.
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I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
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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.
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We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.
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I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
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I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men.
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All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.
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I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.
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When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.
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I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.
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'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.'
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The 'Saw' sequels went in a direction I wouldn't have gone in. With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
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There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
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I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.
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I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.
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I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
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'Insidious 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where we left off at the end of the first film. And whereas the first movie is a twist on the haunted house genre, the second movie is a twist on the classic domestic thriller.
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I always say it's very difficult when you're tackling something like 'Spider-Man' or 'Batman' that has been done so many times before.
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I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way. The key is creating scenarios that people can relate to.
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There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.
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If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.