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M. Night Shyamalan

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2021-02-04

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2021-02-04

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1. “There was no precedent for becoming a filmmaker, certainly in the Indian community or the Asian community. And so this was just for me, for fun, something that I did. And I was going to be a doctor. That's what my parents are and everyone in my family is. I think, you know, from 10 to like 15, that was, it was just the thing I love to do on the road to med school.”

   2021-02-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: M. Night Shyamalan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “I think it was a confluence of when I was born and the natural feeling towards storytelling that I didn't realize that being born in that 1970 and then you have ET when I'm 11 you have Raiders of the Lost Ark when I'm 12 into Star Wars when I'm seven and a half and just right between the eyes you know masterpieces meant right for me and that became my religion and this feeling I wanted to recreate that feeling I wanted to you know so you'd be at home and what you would normally do as a child is you know you pretend that you're in the X-Win fighter and you're you know you're doing all the the play imaginary play but you keep taking that further and further and oh you know maybe I could record this and and maybe it could look like that and so I was very organic just following a love and the love was really just a hobby because I thought”

   2021-02-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: M. Night Shyamalan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT