James Wan Quotes
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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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The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
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I don't have anything against CGI.
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I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.
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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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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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I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.
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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'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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'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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'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 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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'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 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 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 love 'MacGyver.'
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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 use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.
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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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Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.