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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Artist, Play, Risk

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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

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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 Shyamalan

  Woods, Safe, Definitions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Average, Life Is, Biggest Fear

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• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Coincidence

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

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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 Shyamalan

  Views, Skills, Point Of View

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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 Shyamalan

  Get Better, Degrading

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

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  Voice, Grace

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Eerie, Being Real, Polite

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Halloween, Writing, Scare

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Art, Kids, Two

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• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Bad Times, Great Times

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Wish, Sometimes, Knows

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Attention, Reviews, Mediocre

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Drama, Crazy, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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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 Shyamalan

  Writing, People, Sometimes

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• My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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 Shyamalan

  Fashion, Philosophy, Independent

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  School, Woody

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• Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Voice, Filmmaker, Materials

  Source: collider.com

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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 Shyamalan

  Trying, Scene, Careful

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Ideas, Hesitant, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Two, Numbers, People

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

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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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  Faith, Brother, Eye

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