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" I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Never
Believe
Process
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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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" 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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" 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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Good
" The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. "
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Protected
Movies
Me
" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "
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Bad Times
Life
Bad
" 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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Think
Story
" Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. "
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Form
Ambiguous
Anime
" 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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Happened
Greatest
First
" There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone. "
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Alone
Looking
Out
" 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil. "
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Real
Watching
You
" Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. "
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People
Group
Art
" My biggest fear in life is to be average. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Average
Life
Fear
" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "
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Coincidences
Possible
" That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves. "
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Something
Ourselves
Okay
" My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Casting
Cast
Good
" 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. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Key
Kingdom
Hope
" I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Smarter
Want
Pretend
" There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water? "
M. Night Shyamalan
Water
Glass
Monster
" 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? "
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People
Kind
Believe
" I'm a big believer in our connection to nature. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Big
Our
Nature
" 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. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Beautiful
Me
Us
" If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Write
Down
Escape
" I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. "
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Scary
Steven
Watching
" 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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Know
Reason
Go
" 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. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Sound
You
Experience
" I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. "
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Write
Myself
Like
" I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. "
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Artist
Career
Life
" 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. "
M. Night Shyamalan
Myself
Decision
Hard
" 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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Painting
Art
Writing
" 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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Love
You
Film