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 definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.
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I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.
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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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Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
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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'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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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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It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.
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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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The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'
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I love 'MacGyver.'
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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 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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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 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 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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'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
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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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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.