James Wan Quotes
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If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.
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All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.
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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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As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
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I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
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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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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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For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
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Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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If you're great, I want to work with you.
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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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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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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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The deep sea is a scary world.
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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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'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 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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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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'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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For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
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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!'