These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
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.