Quotes by M. Night Shyamalan - Page 2

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Fashion
Independent
Philosophy
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This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Members
Problem
White
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Art
Movie
Esoteric
Form
Groups
People
Art Form
Films
Group
Small
Singular
Small Group
Theaters
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Devil
Existence
Exorcist
Scariest
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For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Attention
Mediocre
Reviews
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Scared
Woods
Bear
Survive
To Survive
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For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Critical
Instance
Mediocre
Reviews
Sixth Sense
Sixth
Slowly
Received
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Humans
May
Rational
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You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Artist
Play
Risk
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Conform
Decision
Protect
Chose
Learnt
Worked
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Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Insecure
Virtuoso
Hope Me I Can
Drop
Master
Handing
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Originality
Offer
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I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Opportunity
Actors
Class
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Cgi
Combination
Effects
Prefer
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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?
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Believe
Lucky
Miracle
People
Ask
Yourself
Person
Believe Yourself People
Miracles
See
Sees
Signs
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Kissing
May
Miracle
Life Moment Me
Recovered
Scarred
Threw
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Different Angles
Stories
Angles
Coming
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One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Fun
Reason
Thinking
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Art
Buddhist
Martial Arts
Philosophy
Arts
Hindu
Engineered
Genetically
Martial
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The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Different
Needs
Together
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Connections
Elements
Inherently
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There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Careful
Scene
Trying
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Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Dying
Thinking
Writing
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Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Character
Depth
Law
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I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Kids
Wife
Writing
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Deep Down
Fourteen
Fills
Lights
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Judged
Movie Making
Novel
Painting
Art Forms
Forms
Each One
Interpreted
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Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Darkness
Depth
Negative
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I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Crazy
Drama
People
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Actors
Stories
Thinking
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Approach
Crew
Ethics
Subjects
Anyway
Trademark
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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 its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Definitions
Safe
Woods
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Fear
Familiar
Safe
Scared
Woods
Unknown
Feel
Within
Because
Definition
Say
Genetically
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Faith
Brother
Eye
Last Night
Losing
Older Brother
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Book
Drama
Real
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Numbers
People
Two
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A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Character
Color
Frustration
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I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Favorites Things
Territory
Thinking
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As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Air
Children
School
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My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.
M. Night Shyamalan / Screenwriter
Grandmother
Play
Years
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