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" If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that. "

" 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.' "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies. "

" I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" We live in a world that relies on technology. "

" 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. "

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

" 'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see. "

" 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. "

" I see my actors as my collaborators. "

" 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. "

" I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. "

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

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

" I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on. "

" I believe in spirits. I believe in faith. I believe in spirituality. I believe in aliens as well. "

" People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films. "

" For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work. "

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" I love 'MacGyver.' I do! "

James Wan

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