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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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
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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.
