James Wan Quotes
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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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I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.
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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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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 very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?
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I don't have anything against CGI.
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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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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.
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I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.
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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 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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'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
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Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.
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'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.
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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, 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 come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.
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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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I love 'MacGyver.'
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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.