If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

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

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

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.