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All Quotes by author - M. Night Shyamalan
" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "
Bad Times
Life
Bad
" Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. "
Form
Ambiguous
Anime
" Are you in my dream too? "
You
Too
Dream
" 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. "
Key
Kingdom
Hope
" For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. "
Bad
Audience
Attention
" I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good. "
Audience
Someone
Good
" I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am. "
Smarter
Want
Pretend
" I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. "
Artist
Career
Life
" If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. "
Write
Down
Escape
" 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. "
Brother
Big Brother
Me
" If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea. "
Hesitant
Idea
Right
" I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. "
Scary
Steven
Watching
" I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am. "
Who
Outlook
I Am
" 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. "
Myself
Decision
Hard
" 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. "
Life
Me
Moment
" I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. "
Write
Myself
Like
" 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. "
Love
You
Film
" I'm a big believer in our connection to nature. "
Big
Our
Nature
" 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. "
Know
Reason
Go
" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "
Coincidences
Possible
" 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! "
Treat
Think
Story
" I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. "
Never
Believe
Process
" 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. "
Painting
Art
Writing
" Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. "
People
Group
Art
" My biggest fear in life is to be average. "
Average
Life
Fear
" My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. "
Movies
Normal
Months
" My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. "
Casting
Cast
Good
" 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. "
Scared
People
History
" 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? "
People
Kind
Believe
" So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other. "
Beautiful
Me
Us
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