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" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "
M. Night Shyamalan
Coincidences
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" My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. "
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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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" 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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" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "
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" I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. "
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" My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. "
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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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" I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves. "
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" The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. "
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" If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea. "
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