M. Night Shyamalan
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"Manoj Shyamalan", known professionally as "M. Night Shyamalan", is an Indian-American screenwriter, film director, producer and occasional actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots. His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the superhero drama thriller Unbreakable (film)/Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction thriller Signs (film)/Signs (2002), the psychological thriller The Village (2004 film)/The Village (2004), the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006), the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender (2010), and the sci-fi action adventure film After Earth (2013). He is also known for filming and setting his movies in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised, and for including unexpected plot twists in most of his films.

Most of Shyamalan's commercially successful films were co-produced and released by the The Walt Disney Studios (division)/Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone Pictures/Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures/Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.

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

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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

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People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

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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.

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Art is the ability to convey that we are not alone. When I sit down next to you in a movie theater, we get to share each other's point of view. We become part of a collective soul. That's the magic in the movies.

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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.

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Excluding the possibility that a female Scandinavian Olympian was running around outside our house last night, what else might be a possibility?

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It can't be by hand, it's too perfect.

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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.

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