Words matter. These are the best M. Night Shyamalan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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.
Are you in my dream too?
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
I have a naive outlook on life. That’s who I am.
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.
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.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It’s a form of escape.
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 want to pretend I’m any cooler or smarter than I am.
‘The Exorcist’ is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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.
I’ve never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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.
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.
That’s something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
I don’t like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it’s not good.
