James Wan Quotes

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I am actually terrified of sharks; it is my number-one fear.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.

I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

The fear's as bad as falling.

When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongue… and that’s why I cry after sex.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

The scalded head feares cold water.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.