James Wan Quotes

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

Scary movies depend on sound a lot to scare people. When I look around and see people are jumping in their seats, I think: Why? Why? Nothing happened!

I think the way to create a lot of terror in a haunted house film is to have a bunch of people who have no idea what's happening to them, and you sort of live the movie through their eyes.

A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don't ever really feel enough to actually care.

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

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.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

I hate horror movies.

I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

The first 'Scream' was great for me in some ways, but in others it was... a challenge.

As a little kid watching horror movies, if you only got to see the monster for the last two minutes of the movie, I thought that movie pretty much sucked.

I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

I want to make a movie where people are, like, 'Whoa.'

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.