Shock: Did they have to convince you? Oftentimes filmmakers just want to make the film and then they have to try to make it PG-13 or R after the fact.

Shyamalan: Yeah, I never want an agenda, so I didn't want it to be like, "Oh, they have an agenda. Oh, they think it will be cool for me to make an R movie." So I said, "I'm just going to sleep on it, okay?" so I went back and reread the script and realized they were just reacting to the screenplay. I was like, "Did I write an R movie? Damn! I wrote an NC-17 movie! How am I going to get this to be R?" It was so visceral, you know? I looked to the writing and it was like "The girl says this and then suddenly, she stabs herself!" It's not like she can insinuate she stabs herself by the girl's look. You got to stab the girl! Right there, we're right on the edge of getting an R, and we're in the first scene! We're not two minutes into the movie! So you know, one more of those and boom, you're in "R land" so I was just like, "There's no way to do this PG-13."