M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

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• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
• Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
• 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…
• 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…
• Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
• People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see…
• Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
• 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…
• '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…
• My biggest fear in life is to be average.
• A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really…
• The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
• You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back…
• I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.
• I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot,…
• 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,…
• Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

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