Filmmakers Have To Find The Right Materials

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.

My Grandparents Were Classic Indian Grandparents. My Grandmother Would Put So Much Powder On Her Face That It Was Like A Kabuki Play And She'd Come Down The Stairs. I Was Like 8 Or 9 Years Old. My Grandfather Apparently Had No Teeth Because He Would Take Out His Teeth And Put Them In A Glass, And Then He Would Try To Scare Me With It. I Started To Try To Scare Them When I Was A Little Older.

When You Find Your Voice, Your Life Takes On Grace.

I've Been Asked To Direct Pilots For A Lot Of Shows.

Each Of The Actors Need To Have Their Justification For Saying Something Awful. You Want Everyone To Have A Positive And Negative Thing. Even A Positive Thing Needs To Have Darkness In It. It Needs To Have Depth.