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My Mother Loves Me And Everything Goes Well. I Have No Conflict With Her, So That's Not Dramatic.

My First Instinct Was To Cast As Close To The Short Story As Possible, But Then I Realized That I Needed Actors Who Could Go For It And That They Had To Function Well As A Couple In A Love Story.

The Most Mysterious Feminine Factor, The Existence That We Men, We Don't Know. It's Woman. It's Feminine. That's What The Sword Is About. That's The Symbolic Meaning Of The Sword.

When I Sent Those Scripts, That Was The Lowest Point Of My Life. We'd Just Had Our Second Son, And When I Went To Collect Them From Hospital, I Went To The Bank To Try And Get Some Money To Buy Some Diapers, The Screen Showed I've Got $26 Left.

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.