James Wan Quotes
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If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.
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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.
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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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There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.
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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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There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.
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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 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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Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
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For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
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No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.
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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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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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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
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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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As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
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If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.
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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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I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
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The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
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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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It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.
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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.