Fighting For Identity Is Something That Is

I Find It Hard To Deliver Straightforward Things.

Only One Time In My Career I Had That Feeling [that This Is Not Gonna Get Made], It Was For This Movie [life Of Pi]. It Was Right Before We Started The Physical Pre-production. I Pre-visualized The Whole Ocean Part Before We Made The Movie, I Was That Prepared. At One Point They Seemed To Want To Drop It Because It Was Really Risky. The Budget We Proposed Was A Lot Higher Than They Expected, They Wanted To [drop It]. After All, It's A Philosophical Book And A Literature Property, It's Not Batman.

I Like To Go Back To Chinese Film-making From Time To Time. I Don't Think I Can Make Chinese Films Back To Back; It's Such A Big Effort. I'd Have To Take A Very Long Break.

I Grew Up Pretty Much Prevented From Knowing Anything From Communist China Except That They Were The Bad Guys That Stole Our Country.

3d Is Quite A Lot More Advanced In Animated Movies; For Live-action Movies We're Just Taking Baby Steps, We're Just In The Beginning.