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I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
James Wan -
I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
James Wan
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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.
James Wan -
Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
James Wan -
No one knows how much we went through to finish 'Furious 7.'
James Wan -
I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
James Wan -
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!
James Wan -
Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
James Wan
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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.
James Wan -
The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen, or they think from an educational standpoint that something is about to happen because of all the moving parts, it is your job to break that expectation and show the audience something different.
James Wan -
I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.
James Wan -
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
James Wan -
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.
James Wan -
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.'
James Wan
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It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.
James Wan -
I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It's about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.
James Wan -
I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
James Wan -
Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.
James Wan -
'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?
James Wan -
I love 'MacGyver.'
James Wan