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...
movies protected
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
life
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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.
american-director
It can't be by hand, it's too perfect.
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.
ended
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.
beautiful culture elements feels inherently last philosophy teach
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.
months movies normal
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
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.
good human
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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.
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.