M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

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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.

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  • Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

    "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

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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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  • When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

  • There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

    "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

    Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015
  • Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

  • 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.

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  • I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

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  • Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

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  • You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

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  • One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

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  • I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

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  • The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.

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  • I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

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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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  • 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'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

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  • My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

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  • People break down into two groups. When they 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.

    "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • 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.

    "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

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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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  • Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

  • I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

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  • I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

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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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  • 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 whole world makes comic book movies now.

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