James Wan Quotes
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I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
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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've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
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The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
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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 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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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 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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To some degree, this re-release is to let people remember what the first 'Saw' film was, and let them know there was a time in the 'Saw' history where it wasn't all about blood and traps.
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If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.
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If you're great, I want to work with you.
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Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'
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For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
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No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.
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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.
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As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
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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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'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 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'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty 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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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.