James Wan Quotes

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.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you'd be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, 'Oh, he's great, I love him.'

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

I just think political correctness is crap.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

While the world may be dramatizing, the Scientologists are out there, making the “Saints of yesteryear”, look like little children

Everyone is in favor of free speech ... but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.