Quotes from M. Night Shyamalan

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

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

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

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

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

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

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

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

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.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

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

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 like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

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?

Move children! Vamanos!

Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's - that's just an awful feeling.

Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr Glass.

Some people choose to see Coincidences, others choose to see Miracles.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

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