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You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.
M. Night Shyamalan
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M. Night Shyamalan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 6
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I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.
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The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.
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Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
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