Shyamalan Movies Quotes

#1. It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Diane Cilento

#2. I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

M. Night Shyamalan

#3. Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Silius Italicus

#4. I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.

Katrina Bowden

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

M. Night Shyamalan

#6. I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Mayer Hawthorne

#7. He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Saint Augustine

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

M. Night Shyamalan

#9. I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Elizabeth Berg

#10. When I'm at home, I enjoy going go-karting.

Andy Murray

#11. The only way round is through.

Robert Frost

#12. It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

Beverley Nichols

#13. My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

M. Night Shyamalan

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

M. Night Shyamalan

#15. Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

M. Night Shyamalan

#16. Reach beyond the boundaries of the self and revel in the limitlessness of the soul. From there, all things are possible.

Lady Kali Tara

#17. 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.

M. Night Shyamalan

#18. Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.

Pearl Zhu

#19. I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear that voice not when we want something else but when we're in danger of losing the things we already have?

Brock Clarke

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

M. Night Shyamalan

#21. This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.

M. Night Shyamalan

#23. I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

M. Night Shyamalan

#24. Do you believe in Jesus?
Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do," he says.
I sit up.
"I think you look like him.

Carol Lynch Williams

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

M. Night Shyamalan

#26. The whole world makes comic book movies now.

M. Night Shyamalan

#27. I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

M. Night Shyamalan