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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You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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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.
