You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

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

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

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.