James Wan Quotes
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I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.
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We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.
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'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.'
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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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There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.
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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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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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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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If you're great, I want to work with you.
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'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?
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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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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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'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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Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.
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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
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The deep sea is a scary world.
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I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.
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The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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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 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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As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.