M. Night Shyamalan quotes
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“Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.”
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“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 ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
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“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.”
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“My biggest fear in life is to be average.”
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“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.”
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“Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.”
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“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 ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“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.”
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“I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.”
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“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.”
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“I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.”
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“I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.”
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“I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.”
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“The whole world makes comic book movies now.”
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“My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.”
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“Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.”
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“I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“I consider myself an independent filmmaker.”
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“You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.”
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“I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.”
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“You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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“I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.”
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“If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.”
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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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“When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?”
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“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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“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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“Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.”
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“I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.”
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“There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.”
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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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“There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.”
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“Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.”
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“People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.”
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
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“Always in life bad times will lead to great times.”
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“Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.”
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“I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.”
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