James Wan Quotes

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.

I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies.

If we're not shooting, if we're not filming, if you're not standing on the soundstage, turn off your phone and go live your life.

I do just a film a year and so have a lot of time.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to Cannes. I then did 'Prague,' which was a very niche film.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".

I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a movie called Firehouse Dog for Fox. And I thought, "Oh, man. I'm doing a movie. Maybe I'll work a lot more now. I'm an actor now." Then, for eight, nine months I didn't work after that. After that movie, I began to get some guest star roles, fairly consistently, but because I had been so presumptuous before in thinking that the other jobs would lead to something, I realized: "Just get up. Go to work. Go home. This is your job just like everyone else's job."

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.

It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

Let me just put it that way: I work really hard and play really hard too.

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.