James Wan Quotes
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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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If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.
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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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I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.
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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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I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.
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The deep sea is a scary world.
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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice.
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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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Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
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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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Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
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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.
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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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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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Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.
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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 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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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.
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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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I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.
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Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.