James Wan Quotes

I can`t point anything specific out, but I`m a big David Lynch fan, he`s a big influence on Saw, and another director I truly admire as well, is an Italian, Dario Argento? These two guys have a big impact on us, Deep Red, Lost Highway.

When we handed in our first cut, the Sundance version, we were essentially told the film was too intense. Really? I`m going to be penalized for doing what I`m supposed to do as a director? I think they have a problem with the `tone` as well. How do you cut `tone`? How do you censor `tone`?

That was part of my aesthetic that I was going for. I wanted to make the film really claustrophobic, and one way I was going to do that was, every time we go to a new location, I`m not going to set it up using an establishing shot. You don`t see a house, and then cut to the inside of the house. You cut to inside, to inside, to inside. (on `Saw`)