I find it hard to compare a 20 million Shyamalan movie - even if it was self financed - with Drive or with Lynch and Cronenberg's work. I also find it difficult to compare Lynch and Cronenberg, although I - more or less - get what you're saying. They are all auteurs and rebels, in a way.

No matter what, Lynch is an artist too. In fact, he was a painter, before he became a filmmaker and has never stopped focussing on all kind of other creative stuff besides his filmmaking.

Better not get me started on Lynch. He was my biggest example as a filmmaker and I wrote my final thesis of film studies on ( part of ) his oeuvre :>)

I will try my best to check out Glass in the near future. I would like to see Split first though.

Nice to have you here as the only filmmaking voice out of L.A. that I've connected with ever :>)