Shyamalan Follows the SIGNS
July 29th, 2002
M. Night Shyamalan told the Associate Press that he wanted to include more emotion in his new film than there was in UNBREAKABLE. The 31-year-old director feels he moved away from the detached tone of his last two films with SIGNS.
"What I realized with UNBREAKABLE is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater," Shyamalan told the Daily News of Los Angeles. "So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see joy and emotion."
Shyamalan, who came from a Hindu background but attended a Catholic school for 10 years, says the movie is about spirituality but not necessarily about religion. "Religion is some group saying their particular version of God is the right version, and that's hard for me to accept," he said. "The world has become such a smaller place. It makes it hard for me to believe that the guy in Nepal and the little boy in Africa and the old man in Maine, all three of them with different versions of God, and yet maybe none of them are right."
"I just can't believe that. There has to be some unifying thing."
(Source: AP)
"What I realized with UNBREAKABLE is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater," Shyamalan told the Daily News of Los Angeles. "So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see joy and emotion."
Shyamalan, who came from a Hindu background but attended a Catholic school for 10 years, says the movie is about spirituality but not necessarily about religion. "Religion is some group saying their particular version of God is the right version, and that's hard for me to accept," he said. "The world has become such a smaller place. It makes it hard for me to believe that the guy in Nepal and the little boy in Africa and the old man in Maine, all three of them with different versions of God, and yet maybe none of them are right."
"I just can't believe that. There has to be some unifying thing."
(Source: AP)
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