James Wan Quotes

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James Wan

Profession : Producer

Birth : February 27, 1977

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

James Wan

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 a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.

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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'm a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.

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Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Sixth Sense' or 'The Others,' it's more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.

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Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

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I love 'MacGyver.' I do!

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I took a break from horror; I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.

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I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

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I see my actors as my collaborators.

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I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman.

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Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

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We all live in some kind of home, so the idea that our home could be invested with a supernatural entity is kind of frightening, I think.

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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

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With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.

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Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.

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People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

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A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.

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