James Wan Quotes
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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 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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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
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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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Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.
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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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Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
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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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I'm very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera - it's just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best.
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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.
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I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.
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The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'
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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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I love 'MacGyver.'
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It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.
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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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'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 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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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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'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.
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'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.