A biography for M. Night Shyamalanhasn’t been written yet.
“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?”
“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.”
“I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.”
“Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.”
“When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.”
“My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.”
“I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.”
“I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.”
“My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.”
“'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.”
“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?”
“The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.”
“That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.”
“I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.”
“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.”
“I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.”
“There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?”
“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.”
“I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.”
“If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.”