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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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" There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone. "

" 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. "

" If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. "

" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "

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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. "

" I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. "

" 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. "

" I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am. "

" 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. "

" My biggest fear in life is to be average. "

" The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened. "

" 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. "

" There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water? "

" Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. "

" My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. "

" I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am. "

" When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope. "

" 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! "

" I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. "

M. Night Shyamalan

Write

Myself

" I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. "

" I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good. "

" 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

Brother

Big Brother

" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "

" If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea. "

" Are you in my dream too? "

" That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves. "

" The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. "

M. Night Shyamalan

Protected

Movies

" 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? "

" I'm a big believer in our connection to nature. "