I'm Just A Pretty Regular Dad.

American Films Are Less American Every Day, Because You Have To Please A World Audience. There's Less Authenticity, So It's More Accessible.

It's Just What I Am. When I Am In The Zone Making One Movie, I Just Didn't Want To Read Anything Else Or Do Anything Else, So I Don't Really Develop Projects.

First We Pre-visualized It [the Flying Fish Scene In 'life Of Pi'] So The Actors Could Act. It Took A Long Time To Get That To Come To Life And To Design Those Coming Out Of The Screen. We Had Great Fun With That. It Takes A Long Time, A Year Maybe.

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.

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