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James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

Creative, Directors, Financial, Shoot, Think, Thinking

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.

Thinking, People, Hollywood, Remake, Property, Financial

I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.

Cameras, Needs, Part, Scene, Suspense, Visual

Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.

Writing, Trying, Hollywood, Boiling, Stages, Process

I've always said that with a lot of the horror franchises that I've started, it's like directing a pilot. I come in, I direct the first movie and all these directors come in and direct all the sequels after me and hey have to kind of retain the look, the tone, and the characters.

Character, Characters, Directors, Horror, Look, Looks

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

Communication, Let, Normally, Thinking, Vision

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.

Dark, Enjoy, Littles, Movies, Used, Watches

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

Gotta, Ideas, Shoot, Strong, Think, Thinking

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film and I think I am growing with each movie. And I think it's important because you need to strive to better yourself.

Back, Filmmaker, Important, Learn, Thinking, Trying

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

Already, No Reason, Reason, Rehash, Seen

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.

Climate, Degree, Intellectual, Movie, Sociopolitical, Thinking

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.

Audio, Character, Cinema, Emotional, Full

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

Audience, Franchise, Like, Sequels, Talking, Work

I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.

Camera, Cameras, Movement, Think, Thinking

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

Action, Aquariums, Box, Films, Movie, Swimming

We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

Action, Fans, Film, Stuff, Want

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

Audience, Camera, Cameras, Helping, Way, Ways

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

Important, Irony, People, See, Think, Thinking

We're terrified of shocks but we're so fascinated by it at the same time. We're terrified of spiders and reptiles and all of that but at the same time you're fascinated by them - you want to go to the zoo and go behind the glass and look at all these creepy crawlies! It's the same thing with the supernatural. I think we're very frightened by it.

Thinking, Creepy, Reptiles, Crawlies, Thing

What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"

Closet, Doors, Ideas, Night, Riding, Work

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