--- description: One Power for You, One for Me title: What Superpower Would M. Night Shyamalan Choose? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f37fdefa9b8147/698862f3a988ca48d86b4442/question-everything-m-night-shyamalan.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 11, 2015 # One Power for You, One for Me by M. Night Shyamalan  NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage)Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Mia Tramz for TIME The ability to sense danger with enough time to do something about it. Or to produce a burger from Shake Shack at will. _Shyamalan is a director, screenwriter and producer_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4028396/m-night-shyamalan-if-you-could-have-any-superpower/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4028396/m-night-shyamalan-if-you-could-have-any-superpower/"},"headline":"What Superpower Would M. Night Shyamalan Choose?","datePublished":"2015-09-11T17:04:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:08:34.989Z","description":"One Power for You, One for Me","url":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4028396/m-night-shyamalan-if-you-could-have-any-superpower/","keywords":["Question Everything"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f37fdefa9b8147/698862f3a988ca48d86b4442/question-everything-m-night-shyamalan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f37fdefa9b8147/698862f3a988ca48d86b4442/question-everything-m-night-shyamalan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4028396/m-night-shyamalan-if-you-could-have-any-superpower/","name":"What Superpower Would M. Night Shyamalan Choose?"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Question Everything: What Superpower Would You Have?","description":"TIME hit the streets to ask New Yorkers several offbeat questions designed to provoke and prod the brain.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3l1m5UCM/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-09-18T14:45:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3l1m5UCM.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4028396/m-night-shyamalan-if-you-could-have-any-superpower/","duration":"PT1M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4028396/m-night-shyamalan-if-you-could-have-any-superpower/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```