I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

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.

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