M. Night Shyamalan quotes don Miguel Ruiz’s FOUR AGREEMENTS in this interview, including: “Be impeccable with your word,” which Shyamalan interprets as meaning “every word is like a spell that you’re putting on the world. It should be an act of truth, you don’t want to generalize and send the wrong [message] out.”

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After writer and director M. Night Shyamalan decided to focus the domestic side of his philanthropic foundation on improving public schools in Philadelphia, he spent some time in the classroom teaching English in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. Most of the students in the class were “bored out of their skulls” until Shyamalan shared the following statistic: “Word for word, I’m the highest paid writer in the world.”  ~ via article “Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan on the Catch 22 of Branding and the Power of Point of View”
Published: December 07, 2011 in Knowledge@Wharton