M. Night Shyamalan famous quotes

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

#Sleep #Giving #Work Out

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

#Artist #Play #Risk

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Coincidence

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

#Real #Drama #Book

My biggest fear in life is to be average.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Average #Life Is

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

#Darkness #Depth #Negative

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

#Movie #Art #People

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

#Trying #Scene #Careful

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

#Children #School #Air

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

#Men #Mad #Tone

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

#Character #Law #Depth

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

#Writing #Kids #Wife

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

#Character #Frustration #Color

The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Littles #Tvs #Film

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

#May #Rational #Humans

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

#Cutting #Directors #Minutes

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

#Want #Bunch

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Guy #Film

The whole world makes comic book movies now.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Book #World #Comic Book

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

#Fashion #Philosophy #Independent

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

#Views #Skills #Point Of View

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

#Knowing #Desire #Way

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

#Together #Different #Needs

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

#Writing #People #Sometimes

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

#Writing #Watches #Want

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

#Watches #Classroom

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Eerie #Being Real #Polite

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Voice #Filmmaker #Materials

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Independent #Filmmaker

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

#Cutting #Directors #Green

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#School #Woody

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Independent #World #Feels

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

#Get Better #Degrading

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Pilots #Shows #Direct

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

#Ideas

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Voice #Grace

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

#Attention #Reviews #Mediocre

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

#Safe #Definitions #Woods

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

#Believe #People #Miracle

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

#Thinking #Stories #Actors

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

#Art #Kids #Two

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

#Wish #Sometimes

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

#Halloween #Writing #Scare

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#All Alone

'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

#Art #Buddhist #Philosophy

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

#Faith #Brother #Eye

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

#Thinking #Saws #Filmmaking

People break down into two groups when the 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

#Two #Numbers #People

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Bad Times

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

#Art #Anime #Form

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

#Kissing #Miracle #May