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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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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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'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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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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I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.
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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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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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I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
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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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You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
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I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.
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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'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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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.
M. Night Shyamalan
When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.
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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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