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'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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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
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Are you in my dream too?
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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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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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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 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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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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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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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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'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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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'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
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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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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
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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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That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
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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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Is it possible that there are no coincidences?