The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.