Having such a diverse cast and crew is what makes the 'Fast & Furious' films so unique to all the other studio tent pole films that just have a very singular look to them.
— James Wan
I always say it's very difficult when you're tackling something like 'Spider-Man' or 'Batman' that has been done so many times before.
Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart.
The deep sea is a scary world.
As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It's about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.
I have a tendency to overcut my movies.
I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.
I believe in spirits. I believe in faith. I believe in spirituality. I believe in aliens as well.
I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.
The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.
If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.
I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.
If you're great, I want to work with you.
There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.
It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.
The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important for me and the kind of films I make.
Aquaman's such an amazing character.
I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.
The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen, or they think from an educational standpoint that something is about to happen because of all the moving parts, it is your job to break that expectation and show the audience something different.
I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.
People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.
I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.
If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
We live in a world that relies on technology.
What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.
What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.
With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.
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 I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.
The thing that ultimately pushed me more towards 'Aquaman' is I love the possibility of creating a whole new world. I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
I love the idea of being the underdog, coming in with a take on this underdog character and completely blow people's expectations away. Like, 'Oh, you thought he was going to be a wimpy character? No no no.'
If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.
You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.
The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
I like to think we're not the only thing that exists on the plane of existence. I like to think that just because we don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.
What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
I'm a big John Woo fan.
Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.
