M. Night Shyamalan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Sleep #Giving #Work Out
“You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Artist #Play #Risk
“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Coincidence
“The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Real #Drama #Book
“My biggest fear in life is to be average.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Average #Life Is
“Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Darkness #Depth #Negative
“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

#Movie #Art #People
“There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Trying #Scene #Careful
“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Children #School #Air
“I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Men #Mad #Tone
“Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Character #Law #Depth
“I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Writing #Kids #Wife
“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Character #Frustration #Color
“The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Littles #Tvs #Film
“You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#May #Rational #Humans
“I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Cutting #Directors #Minutes
“I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Want #Bunch
“I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Guy #Film
“The whole world makes comic book movies now.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Book #World #Comic Book
“My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Fashion #Philosophy #Independent
“There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Views #Skills #Point Of View
“I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Knowing #Desire #Way
“The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Together #Different #Needs
“Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Writing #People #Sometimes
“You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Writing #Watches #Want
“Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Watches #Classroom
“I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Eerie #Being Real #Polite
“Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Voice #Filmmaker #Materials
“I consider myself an independent filmmaker.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Independent #Filmmaker
“You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.”
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Cutting #Directors #Green

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