I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There’s something about creating life out of things that have no life. James Wan Read Quote
When you conceive the scene, you go, ‘That is scary, right?’ When you shoot it, a lot of times you’re not quite sure. Hopefully what you can shoot is what your conception is. James Wan Read Quote
The size of the budget doesn’t make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I have on a big budget film as well, but they’re just much bigger. James Wan Read Quote
It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don’t really cost as much to make. James Wan Read Quote
I think the ‘Saw’ universe, the ‘Saw’ brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf. James Wan Read Quote
Saw’ really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own. James Wan Read Quote
I’m a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different. James Wan Read Quote
