I Grew Up Pretty Much Prevented From

I Think Each Movie-making Process Is A Very Exhausting And Satisfying And Fulfilling Experience For Me.

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.

My First Instinct Was To Cast As Close To The Short Story As Possible, But Then I Realized That I Needed Actors Who Could Go For It And That They Had To Function Well As A Couple In A Love Story.

To Me, Ennis Stands For The Conservative Side Of America. He's The Biggest Homophobe In The Whole Movie - Culturally And Psychologically - But By The Time He Admits His Feelings, It's Too Late.

When I Grew Up, In Taiwan, The Korean War Was Seen As A Good War, Where America Protected Asia. It Was Sort Of An Extension Of World War Ii. And It Was, Of Course, The Peak Of The Cold War. People In Taiwan Were Generally Proamerican. The Korean War Made Japan. And Then The Vietnam War Made Taiwan. There Is Some Truth To That.