00:03As I was writing the book, cinematic as it was in my mind, I thought this is a completely unfilmable
00:09story.
00:13You have to take those little symbols on the page and turn them into a visual reality.
00:21Other directors looked at the projects and went around, expressed interest, but, you know, it didn't come together.
00:27You needed a director who both could understand the story, feel for it, but also be able to overcome the
00:33enormous technical challenges.
00:43If you're a filmmaker, it's quite daunting.
00:47The challenge with Life of Pi is that it's a movie that features a tiger.
00:51They have to use a CGI tiger because there's some parts of the story that would be unfilmable otherwise.
01:00Life of Pi is definitely one of the most challenging projects I've ever worked on.
01:04The bar that we set for ourselves was something that hasn't been done in the past.
01:13We had over 15 artists just working on the fur.
01:16Someone has to comb and place all the 10 million hairs that are on his body.
01:20We have people in Los Angeles, people in India, some other artists in Vancouver, and Kuala Lumpur all working on
01:26Richard Parker.
01:28How do you make that into a movie?
01:33Sometimes feels like courage.
01:35Sometimes you just seem despair.
01:37There's someone who's in the back of the car.
01:53Tang Lee has a know-how, a determination to pull that off.
01:57So he's the perfect director.
01:58It's a match made in heaven.
01:59What more do you want?
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