Quotes from James Wan

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

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.

For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.

The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important for me and the kind of films I make.

I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned 'Saw' as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.

I want to start off making the kinds of films that I loved growing up as a kid. Fun horror films that are scary but at the same time, after you finish the movie, it leaves you excited to see more.

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.

Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.

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.

I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.

You can never have too much good blessing.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice.

All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

I think before 'Saw' came along, there really wasn't a movie franchise that actually went out there and said, 'We're going to come out with one every year during Halloween and make that our trademark.'

I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!

I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.

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.

You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'