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

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.

— James Wan

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

— James Wan

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coin 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

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

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.

— James Wan

We live in a world that relies on technology.

— James Wan

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

— James Wan

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.

— James Wan