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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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" 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. "

M. Night Shyamalan

Painting

Art

Writing

" 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 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

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

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

" 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. "

M. Night Shyamalan

Life

Moment

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

M. Night Shyamalan

Protected

Movies

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

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

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

M. Night Shyamalan

Write

Myself

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

" Are you in my dream too? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. "

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

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

" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "

M. Night Shyamalan

Coincidences

Possible

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

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

" 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. "