Latest M. Night Shyamalan Quotes from Interviews

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• People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Drama, People

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• 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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Fun, Thinking, Reason

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thinking, Territory, Favorites Things

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Creative, Stuff, Interaction

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  White, Problem, Members

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Opportunity, Class, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thrillers, Shots, Draws

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, Thinking, Dying

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Guy, Film, Died

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Littles, Tvs, Film

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• The whole world makes comic book movies now.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Book, World, Comic

  Source: collider.com