The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
From James Wan
The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'
The 'Saw' sequels went in a direction I wouldn't have gone in. With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.
I love my genre films, but I think when I get older, the way I tell it will be very different to how I told it when I was in my mid-twenties, which is how old I was when I made the first 'Saw.'
There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.
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