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We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
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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.
James Wan
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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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'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.'
James Wan -
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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If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.
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All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.
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It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.
James Wan
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I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.
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I think before 'Saw' came along, there really wasn't a movie franchise that actually went out there and said, 'We're going to come out with one every year during Halloween and make that our trademark.'
James Wan -
'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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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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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.
James Wan -
If you're great, I want to work with you.
James Wan
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Ask anyone, and they'll tell you that most of the good horror films made in the U.S. are indie films. You might get 'The Ring' or 'The Others,' but most are independently produced.
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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.
James Wan -
'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.
James Wan -
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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What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.
James Wan
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No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to 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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There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.
James Wan -
Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.
James Wan