For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
From James Wan
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 creating scenarios that people can relate to.
'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.
Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.
I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, moving - so I'm not actually privy to all the weird stuff that's happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that's what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.
You can never have too much good blessing.
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.
There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
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