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I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

M. Night Shyamalan

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M. Night Shyamalan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 6
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Mayyazhi
Manoj Shyamalan
Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan and member on the jedi council
Spike
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Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
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Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.
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I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.
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I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.
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I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.
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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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My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
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I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.
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I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.
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Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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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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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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You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.
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I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.
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When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.
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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 its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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