I Don't Like To Deal With Studios.

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

Fighting For Identity Is Something That Is Very Much In My Life.

My Hometown Was One Of The Major U.s. Air Force Bases.

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 Think For Most People, The Audience Probably Couldn't Tell The Difference, But I Know They [shots Of Visual Effects] Can Be Better. And The People Working Know They Can Be More Precise. I'm Still Doing Another Round Of Sound Mixing And Color Timing, Pretty Technical Stuff. I Think The Movie [life Of Pi] Is Really Presentable, Nothing Was Left Out That Would Take You Out Of The Movie. I Just Need To Perfect The Job And I Still Have Two Weeks To Go [to Deliver Final Cut To Fox].