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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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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If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.
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Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
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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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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
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If you're great, I want to work with you.
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
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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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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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The deep sea is a scary world.
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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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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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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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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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'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 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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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
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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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'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?
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With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.