119 Quotes by M. Night Shyamalan

I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

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!