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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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
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We are all dead men on leave.
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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.
