Quotes from James Wan

I love Sam Peckinpah.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

The deep sea is a scary world.

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.

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

It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.

I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men.

I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face.

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.

I think the 'Saw' universe, the 'Saw' brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf.

I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?

That's the problem: when you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to because I'm so movied out, right? I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is, with the little spare time that I have, is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.

I always say, what is cool for me with 'The Conjuring', is it's not just another scary set piece or another scary case; it's more about what I can do with the characters of Ed and Lorraine Warren.

I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.

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.

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.

I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'