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...
movie art people
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
trying scene careful
There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.
real drama book
The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
safe definitions woods
When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
average life-is biggest-fear
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
coincidence
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
eerie being-real polite
I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.
art kids two
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
sleep giving work-out
Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
artist play risk
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
nature
I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.