James Wan Quotes

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.