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I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.Collection: James
I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.Collection: James
My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.Collection: James
I love 'MacGyver.'Collection: James
I'm a big fan of the 'Fast' franchise. I remember when I met Neal Moritz early on, I joked if Justin Lin ever left the franchise, I would be the perfect guy to slip right in and take over, and no one would know the difference.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.Collection: James
I want to start off making the kinds of films that I loved growing up as a kid. Fun horror films that are scary but at the same time, after you finish the movie, it leaves you excited to see more.Collection: James
I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.Collection: James
You can only go by the instinct that you have.Collection: James
I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned 'Saw' as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.Collection: James
I think the 'Saw' universe, the 'Saw' brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf.Collection: James
No one knows how much we went through to finish 'Furious 7.'Collection: James
I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!Collection: James
'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
Up until 'Fast and Furious 7,' every movie I've made has been a film that I've created, franchises that I've created.Collection: James
'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.Collection: James
It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.Collection: James
For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.Collection: James
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
'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.Collection: James
Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.Collection: James
I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
You can never have too much good blessing.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.Collection: James
The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'Collection: James
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.Collection: James
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.Collection: James
We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.Collection: James
'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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
'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.Collection: James
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.'Collection: James
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.Collection: James
So many movies get made, and so many go to VOD, which is a market I admire.Collection: James
Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'Collection: James
I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.Collection: James
That's the problem: when you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to because I'm so movied out, right? I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is, with the little spare time that I have, is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.Collection: James
I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.Collection: James
I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.Collection: James