M. Night Shyamalan Quotes
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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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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The Bible nowhere calls upon men to go out in search of peace of mind. It does call upon men to go out in search of God and the things of God.
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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.
