M. Night Shyamalan

“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.”

“My biggest fear in life is to be average.”

“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.”

“When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.”

“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.”

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

“I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.”

“My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.”

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

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

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