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...
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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.
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.
causes involved
I don't get involved in too many causes, but this is what I do for a living.
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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.
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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.
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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.
grew movies spielberg steven
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
art judged money takes
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.
life
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
movies protected
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.