Night Shyamalan
Night Shyamalan
Manoj Shyamalan, known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-American film director, screenwriter, producer and occasional actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots. His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense, the superhero drama thriller Unbreakable, the science fiction thriller Signs, the psychological thriller The Village, the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water, the natural thriller The Happening, the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender, the sci-fi action-adventure film After Earth, the found-footage horror film...
writing want causes
You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.
watches classroom
Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
voice filmmaker materials
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
book world comic
The whole world makes comic book movies now.
together rooms tvs
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, I know where their muscles need to be.
independent world feels
I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.
cutting green directors
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
fashion philosophy independent
My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
skills views point-of-view
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
school woody
I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.
get-better degrading
You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.
tvs littles film
The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
thinking territory favorites-things
I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.
creative stuff humans
I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.