Australian - Producer | February 27, 1977 -
We all live in some kind of home, so the idea that our home could be invested with a supernatural entity is kind of frightening, I think.
James Wan
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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
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Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.
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People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
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A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.
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With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.
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I think that the first 'Saw' was really more of a psychological film about two people stuck in a room, and the traps and games that fans seem to embrace so much now were quite a small portion of the film.
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All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.
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When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
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'The Conjuring' was a massive success, and honestly, it set the bar quite high. So I was nervous about making the sequel, and I wasn't sure if it will still have the same impact as the first one did. But that's what moved me to make the sequel.
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When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.
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