I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

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.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.