In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

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

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.