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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Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just kept haunting me.
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It can't be by hand, it's too perfect.
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I don't get involved in too many causes, but this is what I do for a living.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
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My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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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.