M. Night Shyamalan

The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

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

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

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

'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.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

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

That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

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.

My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

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

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

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

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

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.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?