M. Night Shyamalan Quotes
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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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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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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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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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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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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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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Are you in my dream too?
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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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 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 they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.