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...
watches classroom
Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
voice filmmaker materials
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
independent filmmaker
I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
together rooms tvs
The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.
shots thrillers draws
I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
grandmother glasses years
My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.
writing thinking dying
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
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.
cutting thinking long
My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.
opportunity class actors
I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
white problem members
This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].
creative stuff humans
I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.
pilots shows direct
I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.
children school medicine
As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.