119 Quotes by M. Night Shyamalan

If I’m hesitant at all about an idea, then that’s not the right idea.

You’re never the same. You’re degrading, or you’re getting better. You don’t stay the same.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It’s something that I’m very careful about, that I’m just leaning too hard into something.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it’s an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that’s my trademark or one of them anyway!

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can’t. What I can’t take is when my older brother, who’s everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don’t ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

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.

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.

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.

Move children! Vamanos!