M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

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.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

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.

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 its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.