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I have a tendency to overcut my movies.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.Collection: James
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.'Collection: James
As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.Collection: James
When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.Collection: James
Aquaman's such an amazing character.Collection: James
The deep sea is a scary world.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.Collection: James
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.Collection: James
Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.Collection: James
I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.Collection: James
I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?Collection: James
You know 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.Collection: James
I'm very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera - it's just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best.Collection: James
If I have to point to something specific with the way I move my camera, I love to do it with a wide lens. I like to show you as much of the space as I can, even if I'm following a character.Collection: James
One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.Collection: James
I don't have anything against CGI.Collection: James
When I'm making a big movie, I miss and appreciate all the subtleties that come with making a smaller film that is more intimate, more personal.Collection: James
Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.Collection: James
'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?Collection: James
I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face.Collection: James
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.Collection: James
I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.Collection: James
Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'Collection: James
I like the 'Twilight' films.Collection: James
'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.Collection: James
I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.Collection: James
I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.Collection: James
It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.Collection: James
Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.Collection: James
I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.Collection: James
When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.Collection: James
My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it.Collection: James
I always say, what is cool for me with 'The Conjuring', is it's not just another scary set piece or another scary case; it's more about what I can do with the characters of Ed and Lorraine Warren.Collection: James
The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.Collection: James
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.Collection: James
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.Collection: James
I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.Collection: James
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.Collection: James
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.Collection: James