I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

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.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

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

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.