M. Night Shyamalan Quotes
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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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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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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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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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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Are you in my dream too?
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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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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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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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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?
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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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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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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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I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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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 it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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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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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.