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Economically, It’s More Expensive To Make Movies. I Hope Digital Movies Change That.

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.

Over The Years Woodstock Got Glorified And Romanticised And Became The Event That Symbolised Utopia. It's The Last Page Of Our Collective Memory Of The Age Of Innocence. Then Things Turned Ugly And Would Never Be The Same Again.

I Think It[3d] Should Be Used As A New Artistic Form, Not As A Gimmick, Not To Impress You But The Existence Of An Environment That You View As A Theatrical Dramatic Experience Is - You Don't Just Have The X-y Axis, You Have The Z And That Makes A Difference. You Still Have The Framing, You Still Use Lenses, So Most Of The Cinematic Rules And Languages Still Apply But I Think It's A Different Existence.