M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

• I offer originality: you don’t know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that’s the reason I’ve been getting all this attention.

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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision – whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

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• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

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• I don’t want to pretend I’m any cooler or smarter than I am.

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• I don’t like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it’s not good.

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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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• Being insecure – I’m a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don’t drop the key.

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• Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That’s part of the art form.

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• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

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• I have a naive outlook on life. That’s who I am.

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• Are you in my dream too?

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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 like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

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• I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

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• There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can’t. What I can’t take is when my older brother, who’s everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don’t ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

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• See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

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• When they see those fourteen lights, they’re looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever’s going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

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• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

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• There’s a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

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• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

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Birth:	6th August, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director

About

Manoj Shyamalan is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots including The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water and The Last Airbender. He is also known for filming and setting his movies in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised.

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