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" I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Smarter
Want
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" 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. "
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" I'm a big believer in our connection to nature. "
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" I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am. "
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" There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water? "
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" My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. "
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" If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea. "
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" The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. "
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" When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. "
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" 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. "
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" The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened. "
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" I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good. "
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" 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. "
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" There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. "
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" 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. "
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" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. "
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" My biggest fear in life is to be average. "
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" 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. "
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