Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

The script was written by Brian Nelson based on an original idea from Shyamalan. Although Hindu he attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy followed by the Episcopal Academy a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion Pennsylvania. "But I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending.

Manoj Shyamalan (pron. He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and around Philadelphia Pennsylvania where he was raised. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American screenwriter film director and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots including The Sixth Sense (1999) Unbreakable (2000) Signs (2002) The Village (2004) The Happening (2008) and Devil (2010).