James Wan

I love 'MacGyver.'

I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.

I love Sam Peckinpah.

I am a student of cinema, and I love filmmaking of all kinds.

Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.

I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.

With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.

I love 'MacGyver.' I do!

Fast and Furious' is the only franchise that I've directed that I did not create from scratch. So it definitely was an eye-opening experience for me coming to that world. I had to be respectful of the roles that had been established by the filmmakers before me, and I was cool with that.

I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.