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You can never have too much good blessing.
James Wan
Good
You
Blessing
Too Much
Too
Never
Much
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.
James Wan
Funny
God
Too Much
Made
Films
Too
Saw
Insidious
Got
Godless
Accused
Being
Much
Fascist
Now
The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
James Wan
Action
Scenes
Stuff
Intense
Want
Designing
The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'
James Wan
Saw
Insidious
Direct
Got
Wanted
Why
The 'Saw' sequels went in a direction I wouldn't have gone in. With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
James Wan
Thought
Gone
Saw
Franchise
Insidious
Direction
Potential
Push
Go
Wanted
Should
Sequels
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
James Wan
People
Films
Characters
John
Seeing
Brothers
He
Goodman
Quirky
Used
Dad
Coen
Played
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.
James Wan
Me
Fear
Clown
Puppets
Scare
Scarred
Perfect
Combination
Stuff
Like
Around
Always
Came
Doll
Been
Dolls
Afraid
Clowns
Then
Really
Fascinated
Film
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
James Wan
Death
Language
Long
Own
Way
Worst
Critic
Wow
My Own
Long Way
Feel
Come
Like
Look
Terms
Am
Go
Matured
Oh
Sentence
Really
Now
Filmmaker
Filmmaking
Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'
James Wan
Character
Me
Smart
Super
About
Part
Excited
New
Talented
Got
His
That's the problem: when you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to because I'm so movied out, right? I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is, with the little spare time that I have, is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.
James Wan
Time
You
Problem
Dark
Enjoy
Out
Find
More
Never
Stuff
Like
Make
Because
Stick
Go
Screen
Wanna
Little
Movies
Room
Spare
Spare Time
Used
Right
Thing
Watch
Last
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.
James Wan
Me
Think
Films
Draws
Kind
Make
Very
Person
Want
Sentimental
Conscious
I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
James Wan
Work
Love
Journey
You
Emotions
Strong
Pain
Once
High
Only
Inspiration
Take
Driven
Along
Come
Concept
Audience
Source
Human
Movies
Craziest
Them
Swear
Then
Really
Connect
I think what 'Saw' did was really open up a huge branch of lots of these other movies that ultimately retroactively gave the first 'Saw' somewhat of a negative reputation.
James Wan
Negative
First
Reputation
Think
Other
Gave
Saw
Somewhat
Open
Ultimately
Lots
Huge
Up
Branch
Did
Movies
Really
I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.
James Wolfensohn
Government
Great
Experience
Believe
Weight
Puts
Development
Terms
Still
Bank
Chinese
Chinese Government
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.
James Wolfensohn
You
Build
Pay
Back
About
Cases
More
More And More
Prospect
Most
Terms
Becomes
Limiting
Debt
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Thing
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
James Wolfensohn
You
World
Water
Financial
Power
Immediately
Financial Assistance
Reconnect
Emergency
Takes
Roads
Well
Because
Ready
Role
Done
Bank
After
Place
Urgently
Bridges
World Bank
Specific
Assistance
Need
I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
James Wolfensohn
World
Poverty
Become
Our
Unless
Way
More
Development
Since
Concerned
Deal
Questions
Going
Children
Then
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Deeply
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
James Wolfensohn
Today
Day
People
World
Three
Half
Living
Dollars
Than
Less
Billion
Population
Two
So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
James Wolfensohn
Best
You
Conflict
Poverty
First
Way
Best Way
About
Prevent
Preventing
First Thing
Dealing
Question
The First Thing
Thing
Need
The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.
James Wolfensohn
People
World
Other
Tend
Recruit
Terrorist
Places
Poor
Poor People
Groups
Al-Qaeda
You can't wish away poverty overnight.
James Wolfensohn
You
Poverty
Wish
Overnight
Away
China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.
James Wolfensohn
Money
Year
Significant
Borrowed
Never
Tenure
Most
Know-How
Client
Were
Than
Bank
Just
China
Used
Less
Billion
The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
James Wolfensohn
Me
Corruption
Word
Our
Out
Immune
General
Pointed
Counsel
Never
Had
Shareholders
Until
Got
Were
Governments
Quite
Bank
Used
Reason
Number
Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
James Wolfensohn
People
Drive
Poverty
Recognize
Jobs
Most
Essential
Against
Create
Really
Element
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
James Wolfensohn
Wisdom
You
Market
Markets
Only
Developed
Openness
Conventional
After
Conventional Wisdom
Certain
Certain Level
Now
Level
Bring
Many people of my generation grew up in developed countries thinking that the world was divided into two parts and that there was a wall round the developed world. They thought that poor people had no relevance to us. What happened on September 11 was that anybody who thought there was a wall now knows that there is no wall.
James Wolfensohn
Generation
People
World
Thought
September
Thinking
Relevance
My Generation
Divided
Had
Developed
Developed Countries
Developed World
Countries
Knows
Parts
Up
Wall
Anybody
Grew
Happened
Poor
Poor People
Us
Who
Many
Now
Round
Two
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