I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.

- James Wan

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

- James Wan

I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

- James Wan

All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.

- James Wan

'Fast and Furious' is the only franchise that I've directed that I did not create from scratch. So it definitely was an eye-opening experience for me coming to that world. I had to be respectful of the roles that had been established by the filmmakers before me, and I was cool with that.

- James Wan

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.

- James Wan

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

- James Wan

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.

- James Wan

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

- James Wan

That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.

- James Wan