Shyamalan Quotes
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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
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
— M. Night Shyamalan
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
— M. Night Shyamalan
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
— M. Night Shyamalan
That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
— M. Night Shyamalan
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
— M. Night Shyamalan
You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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
You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.
— M. Night Shyamalan
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things.
— M. Night Shyamalan
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
— M. Night Shyamalan
Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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
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
I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
— M. Night Shyamalan
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
— M. Night Shyamalan
If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
— M. Night Shyamalan
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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
When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Are you in my dream too?
— M. Night Shyamalan
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
— M. Night Shyamalan
The whole world makes comic book movies now.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
— M. Night Shyamalan
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
— M. Night Shyamalan
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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
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
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.
— M. Night Shyamalan
'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
The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
— M. Night Shyamalan
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
— M. Night Shyamalan
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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
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
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.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
— M. Night Shyamalan