James Wan Quotes
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There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.
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For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
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Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
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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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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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With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
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The deep sea is a scary world.
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I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.
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I like to think we're not the only thing that exists on the plane of existence. I like to think that just because we don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
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A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.
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Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
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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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'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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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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I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on.
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
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For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
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I'm very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera - it's just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best.
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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 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 love the idea of being the underdog, coming in with a take on this underdog character and completely blow people's expectations away. Like, 'Oh, you thought he was going to be a wimpy character? No no no.'
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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'