James Wan Quotes

You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you'd be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, 'Oh, he's great, I love him.'

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

While the world may be dramatizing, the Scientologists are out there, making the “Saints of yesteryear”, look like little children

People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are - I don't get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or how this or how that, they said, how'd you get away with it? How'd you get that into print?

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself a Christian. It'd be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled ... that here's a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady "bimbo" the next.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.