It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

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.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

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. So when I think of doing that I was very excited. It didn't go as far as I think it should, I'm still a novice, but I think it's fair to say it's a new cinematic medium, experience.