M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

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M. Night Shyamalan

Profession : Director

Birth : August 6, 1970

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

M. Night Shyamalan

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

M. Night Shyamalan

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!

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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

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For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

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My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

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I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

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Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

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