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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.

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

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.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

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.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

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.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

Are you in my dream too?

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

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.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

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.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

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.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.