James Wan Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation.

Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows - they're not about me.

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.