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...
directed movies
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
life
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
bad critical mediocre received sixth
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
chose hard learnt whether worked
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
definition familiar fear keeps scared within
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 it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
drop handing hope insecure keys kingdom
Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
good human
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
coming emotional love motivation stories true understand until
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
american-director fills fourteen looking
When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
grew movies spielberg steven
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
life
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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.
believe issue partners
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.