James Wan Quotes

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

I'm from Texas and grew up in the South. Very old-school and traditional. Married, had a kid. Suit and tie. The guy next door.

My family is very conservative.

Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.

I lead a very conventional life.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.

I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.

I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.

I am quite a conservative person, just as an individual.