M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

I don't believe in coincidence.

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

I believe in divine order all the time.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.

Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.