That’s the thing about Aquaman that’s cool is he’s not an alien, right? He’s from our planet, and he’s from a society that we’re not privy to in the context of the story. – James Wan
I think I’m a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that’s what draws me to the kind of films I want to make. – James Wan
When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel. – James Wan
I hope people will like ‘The Conjuring 2’ because I think it is a very natural and organic progression of the first movie. – James Wan
With ‘Insidious 2,’ I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in. – James Wan
‘Saw’ was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker. – James Wan
I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it. – James Wan
With ‘The Conjuring,’ I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
To some degree, this re-release is to let people remember what the first ‘Saw’ film was, and let them know there was a time in the ‘Saw’ history where it wasn’t all about blood and traps. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box. – James Wan
I think Mel Gibson could make ‘Passion of the Christ’ because he really believed in it and gave it his all. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
What I realized is that it doesn’t matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it’s still the same thing. It’s still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense. – James Wan
The size of the budget doesn’t make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I have on a big budget film as well, but they’re just much bigger. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that’s dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
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. – James Wan
‘Poltergeist’ was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I’ve always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and ‘Poltergeist’ was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll. – James Wan
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. – James Wan