I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

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.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.