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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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" 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. "

M. Night Shyamalan

Love

You

Film

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

" When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. "

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

" 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil. "

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

" My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

M. Night Shyamalan

Protected

Movies

" 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. "

M. Night Shyamalan

Know

Reason

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

M. Night Shyamalan

Write

Myself

" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "

M. Night Shyamalan

Coincidences

Possible

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

" Are you in my dream too? "