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I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.
M. Night Shyamalan
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M. Night Shyamalan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 6
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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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Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
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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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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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I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
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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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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
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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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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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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 so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.
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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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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 always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.
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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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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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You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
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