James Wan Quotes
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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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There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.
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As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
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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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If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.
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If you're great, I want to work with you.
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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
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I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.
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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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You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
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With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
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For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
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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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No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.
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With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.
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I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.
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I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.
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I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
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I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!
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I always say, what is cool for me with 'The Conjuring', is it's not just another scary set piece or another scary case; it's more about what I can do with the characters of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
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I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice.
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I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.
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The deep sea is a scary world.