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I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.
M. Night Shyamalan
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M. Night Shyamalan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 6
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Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
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Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.
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I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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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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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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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
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I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
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This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].
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You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
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For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
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Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
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The whole world makes comic book movies now.
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan
One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan
You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.
M. Night Shyamalan
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.
M. Night Shyamalan
I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.
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