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...
audiences connect decided joy matter people realized technical
What I realized with 'Unbreakable' is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater. So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see -- joy and emotion.
course history people scared
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
drama crazy people
I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.
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.
writing people sometimes
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
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?
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.
causes involved
I don't get involved in too many causes, but this is what I do for a living.
haunting kept leave resonate stories
Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just kept haunting me.
american-director
It can't be by hand, it's too perfect.
ability art collective convey magic next point share sit
Art is the ability to convey that we are not alone. When I sit down next to you in a movie theater, we get to share each other's point of view. We become part of a collective soul. That's the magic in the movies.
american-director female house last might night olympian outside running
Excluding the possibility that a female Scandinavian Olympian was running around outside our house last night, what else might be a possibility?
bad goes hope movies
If I can't make movies for theaters, I don't want to make movies. I hope this is a very bad idea that goes away.
believe issue partners
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.