As so often happens, the insights of people rarely highlighted in interviews (like the DP or the production designer or editor or composer) are invariably interesting and fun.
It's always strange to me when people ask me in interviews, "Like, hey, is that story true?" Yeah, it's all true.
And I had to plead my case in interviews, like give it a chance.
He also, as he has said himself in several interviews, likes to lie – especially to journalists.
Travolta described the book in interviews as "like Pulp Fiction for the year 3000" and "like Star Wars, only better".
A lot of people in interviews were like, "I met her, and she was blond and pretty and smiling".
As I see it, extracting the personality of the writer from the story he offers, from the characters he puts onstage, from the landscapes, from the objects, from interviews like this – in short, from the tonality of his writing entirely – is simply a good way of reading.
Life of Pi catapulted him into the literary stratosphere, made him a millionaire (a film of the book due next year, to be directed by Ang Lee, will presumably add to the pot), and sent him on the road for two years doing interviews like this one in hotel lounges around the world – a purgatory he says he enjoys.
In interviews Cunningham liked to emphasize pure movement.
