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...
two numbers people
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 it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
thinking saws filmmaking
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
art anime form
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
bad-times great-times
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
writing people sometimes
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
halloween writing scare
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
attention reviews mediocre
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
voice grace
When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.
knowing desire way
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, along the way.
thinking stories actors
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!
kissing miracle may
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.
believe people miracle
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?
darkness needs actors
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.
wish sometimes knows
Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.