The "Lady" and Her Director

Posted Jul 19th 2006 5:55PM by TMZ Staff

M. Night ShyamalanM. Night Shyamalan is back in theaters with his latest fright flick, "The Lady in the Water."

Shyamalan sat down with his leading lady, Bryce Dallas Howard, for an interview as part of AOL Moviefone's Unscripted feature series. The pair, who worked together previously on "The Village," asked each other questions submitted by AOL users.

When one user asked Night how he makes such scary movies -- but doesn't actually show a lot of violence -- he said,
"I just find it stays with you more if the audience is interacting more... The less you show, the more they have to participate and then they take that home with them."

Check out the full interview on Moviefone, and "The Lady in the Water" when it hits theaters this Friday.

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1. Interesting, I wonder if anyone knows how many of us have loser movie ideas out here but can't come up with a decent name like M. Night Shyamalan.

Posted at 8:05AM on Jul 20th 2006 by doug

2. M.Night is the man!!!!!!!!!

And I don't know what Doug's comment means.

Posted at 9:53AM on Jul 20th 2006 by April

3. It is getting terrible reviews, but since it is a summer movie, people will go. I do like his movies, though. They are fun!!

Posted at 9:57AM on Jul 20th 2006 by Janice

4. M. Night Shyamalan's movies are not scary. I guess people are just a lot easier to scare these days. His movies are interesting, colorful and way over-produced but scary? Not.

Posted at 11:45AM on Jul 20th 2006 by James in Milwaukee

5. Is it me or does this guy look like Michael Jackson before he turned white??

Posted at 12:43PM on Jul 20th 2006 by snowflake

6. He looks like he has a jheri curl in this picture. I thought it was a picture of thriller-era Michael Jackson at first.

Posted at 6:35PM on Jul 21st 2006 by Josh

7. Despite the reviews I wanted to see the movie. Saw it last night and I LOVED IT! And yes, I flinched and was scared more than a few times (~my poor boyfriend's arm). M. Night just has you held there the entire time, entire time of the movie with the storyline. It was really great. I'm from PA and am a loyal fan of M. Night.

Posted at 11:57AM on Jul 23rd 2006 by Pam

8. this movie is HORRIBLE. if you want an inlook on it if you havnt seen it let me just tell you a little something.... once you have figured out a a narf is please tell me. who the hell makes a movie with sea nymphs and a narf???? i mean to wrap the movie up in 2 words.... IT SUCKED i would highly appreciated if he never made a movie again. if you want to waste your money n see a shitty movie then lady in the water is the one to see

Posted at 1:08PM on Jul 24th 2006 by courtney

9. I saw this movie the first night it opened and I loved every minute of it. M Knight is such a good actor and his character is so believable. I want to see this again before I buy the DVD.
M Knight always surprises and never disappoints when he makes a movie.

Posted at 8:56AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Trish