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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It can't be by hand, it's too perfect.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
months movies normal
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
movies protected
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
chase chasing good
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
american-director glass
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
films until
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
felt scariest
'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.