M. Night Shyamalan Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Real, Drama, Book

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Character, Frustration, Color

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Together, Different, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Guy, Film, Died

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  May, Rational, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  All Alone

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

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, Thinking, Dying

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Pilots, Shows, Direct

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Directors, Green

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Fun, Thinking, Reason

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Directors, Minutes

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Movie, Art, People

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

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, Watches, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Independent, World, Feels

  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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Children, School, Air

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thinking, Saws, Filmmaking

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

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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?

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Believe, People, Miracle

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

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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.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Art, Buddhist, Philosophy

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