James Wan Quotes
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For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
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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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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 use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.
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With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.
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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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I love 'MacGyver.'
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I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.
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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, 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'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty thing!'
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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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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
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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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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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I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.
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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 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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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 definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.