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There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.
I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.
I think the 'Saw' universe, the 'Saw' brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf.
I believe in spirits. I believe in faith. I believe in spirituality. I believe in aliens as well.
'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.
There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.
I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?
With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.
I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.
With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.
I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.
I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.
I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.
'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.
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.
I'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty thing!'
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.
Up until 'Fast and Furious 7,' every movie I've made has been a film that I've created, franchises that I've created.
People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.
The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
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.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
I hope people will like 'The Conjuring 2' because I think it is a very natural and organic progression of the first movie.
When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
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.
If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
I'm a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.
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.
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.
I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.
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.
I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.