Quotes About James Wan

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

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.'

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart.

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'

'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.

Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.

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

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 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.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

James Wan is somebody who doesn't have any problem coming in and directing somebody else's script, he'll be the director for hire and he has his own style and he loves that.

I think what 'Saw' did was really open up a huge branch of lots of these other movies that ultimately retroactively gave the first 'Saw' somewhat of a negative reputation.

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.

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it did, which is great. I'm a huge fan.

'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.