Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that … - James Wan

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It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

James Wan

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

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I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.

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What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"

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When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

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The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.

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I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

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