Leigh Whannell Quotes

All of a sudden, I`m on set and I`m like, "Oh yeah, I have to spend this whole film wet." Someone should have really told me but I can`t say that because I wrote it.

I wouldn`t say that was entirely non-deliberate. I do think men can be especially selfish, very focused on what they`re doing. Women often the mother character in the film cares for the child more than she cares for herself, and just from my own point of view, I felt that the men in the film are more the type of people Jigsaw would have a major problem with. (on stereotypical roles for men and women in films and how it applied to his `Saw`)

I`ve been writing stories since I was a kid, and James and I had been talking about wanting to make a film for many years before this. Even though we wrote the film as a means to an end, so that James would have something to direct and I could have something to act in, it wasn`t a slough for me to get through it because I love writing. It took me a long time only because I felt like it was all or nothing, that this script had to be good enough to compete at a world level. We didn`t want it to be something that was something that was pretty good for a couple of guys from Melbourne. We wanted it to be a good film on a par with other independent films like Run, Lola, Run and Pi and Memento, these cool thrillers that had ticking-clock gimmicks to them. They`re the type of films we wanted to be up there with. (on `Saw`)

We`ve got three drops of convict blood in us, because we are from Australia. We are used to oppression.