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.
Every movie is unknown.
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.