James Wan Quotes
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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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Having such a diverse cast and crew is what makes the 'Fast & Furious' films so unique to all the other studio tent pole films that just have a very singular look to them.
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'The Conjuring' was a massive success, and honestly, it set the bar quite high. So I was nervous about making the sequel, and I wasn't sure if it will still have the same impact as the first one did. But that's what moved me to make the sequel.
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I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.
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'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?
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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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I don't have anything against CGI.
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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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With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.
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It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.
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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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Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.
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I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.
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My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it.
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I love 'MacGyver.'
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The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.
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It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.
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I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.
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I think that the first 'Saw' was really more of a psychological film about two people stuck in a room, and the traps and games that fans seem to embrace so much now were quite a small portion of the film.
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'Fast and Furious' is the only franchise that I've directed that I did not create from scratch. So it definitely was an eye-opening experience for me coming to that world. I had to be respectful of the roles that had been established by the filmmakers before me, and I was cool with that.
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'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.
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I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.
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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.
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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.