I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.