Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me