As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

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 feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

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