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

I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.