M. Night Shyamalan Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from M. Night Shyamalan on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
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.
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.
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].
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
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.
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.