I Think Great Romance Needs

Now I'm Kind Of Established As A Director, I Much Prefer Directing To Writing.

Only One Time In My Career I Had That Feeling [that This Is Not Gonna Get Made], It Was For This Movie [life Of Pi]. It Was Right Before We Started The Physical Pre-production. I Pre-visualized The Whole Ocean Part Before We Made The Movie, I Was That Prepared. At One Point They Seemed To Want To Drop It Because It Was Really Risky. The Budget We Proposed Was A Lot Higher Than They Expected, They Wanted To [drop It]. After All, It's A Philosophical Book And A Literature Property, It's Not Batman.

I Don't Have Incredible Knowledge About Films Or Of Filmmaking History; I'm Not That Kind Of Person.

Even Dramatically How You Position Some Person, The Depth, The Existence [in 3d] Is Different Than A Flat Image Even Though By Itself It Has Depth, We Create The Illusion Of Depth. For Example, Some Of The Shots I Have To Stay Closer To The Actor Because It's A Young Actor, I Like It Closer For Some Of The Shots. I Watch 2d Scenes Next To The Camera, Then When I Go Back To My Station And Watch It In 3d I Have To Go Back And Reduce His Acting, He Has To Shrink A Little Bit Because He Peeks Out More.

So Anything That's Not Absolutely Needed, We Would Cut It [footage] Out, Which Would Make Me Very Insecure; Everything Has To Work, And It's A Water Movie In 3d With A Kid, Animals. So The More I Do That, The More I'm Scared Of "what If It Doesn't Go The Way We Want It?" But We Had To Do That To Meet The Budget, Otherwise We Wouldn't Even Have A Start-date.