James Wan Quotes

I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.

Whenever I've surprised my audience, I've gained something out of it.

If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of like a big summer movie. That's the goal, I guess.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

We want to satisfy our fans, but we want to surprise them, too. That's our challenge.

If we can continue to tell stories where fans don't know what will happen next, I think that will be a plus in this 'Divas Revolution.'

As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more and more from me. I want to do 'different' work - good and memorable roles - so that audience appreciate me more. That's why I love to surprise my audience with something they never expect me to do.

I never look at twists as a way to trick the audience. Obviously, I think a good story has surprises and unexpected turns, and you always want to do that with an audience. But it has nothing to do with conning them or making them believe so strongly in one thing and then kind of going the other way.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

I like to get the audiences cozy in their seats, feeling safe, and suddenly they'll be shocked out of their minds.

The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

Time and time again, the players constantly surprise you and often not do at all what you expect and completely muck up your preparation, and that's kind of the beauty of the game. It wouldn't be as fun to the DM if everything worked out exactly how you thought it would.

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.

Ekk Deewana Tha' will have a surprise ending to watch out for.

For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.

It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.