I just thought maybe another dimension, like those cartoons. Then, 3D, I thought 3D might pull it off,” Lee says.

“I thought I found a structure for the movie. It was the film’s bookends structure featuring an adult Pi (Irrfan Khan) and a “writer” (Rafe Spall) telling Pi’s story that convinced Lee it could work. How do you convince this to be possible? Then, about a month later, after asked me, I thought of some solutions, if I can invent a structure that has both first and third person, so I can the illusion of the story, the power of storytelling, within a story, within the frame of the movie illusion. How do you crack this thing? I know it’s good material. However, when he was asked to direct the movie version of novel Lee was intrigued, admitting, “I got seduced. It’s not like how you go about a movie, normally.” It’s too expensive to be made, to justify what it is. It was a very inspiring book, fantastical and mind boggling. “I didn’t think it was a movie,” Lee said. Speaking to the Oscar-winning director of such classics as “The Ice Storm,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” back in November 2012 before “Pi” hit theaters Lee was, as always, incredibly honest about his creative process. No, really.When Ang Lee first read Yann Martel’ “Life of Pi” he didn’t think it was a movie let alone a global blockbuster. I wallow in distractions when I should be writing. When it does, rest assured more words and books about feisty and funny ice queens will issue forth in the future.įeel free to drop me a line. My spare time can also be spent looking thoughtfully at the horizon while frowning to incur writing inspiration to strike. In reality I can be found sleeping, weeding my garden with my partner, computer gaming and staring at my beloved bicycle, wondering what madness induced me to move to a suburb comprising 99.9 per cent hills, 0.1 per cent dales. Investigating which superfood is the most super.

When not scribbling age gap and/or ice queen stories about lesbian cellist assassins, moody superheroes or investigative journalists, I wish I had some noble pursuits to list as my hobbies: Rescuing orphaned dogs. I come late to the game at penning novels, never suspecting my non-fiction brain could jump into fiction easily. Welcome! I’m a full-time writer and part-time editor who was formerly an award-winning journalist and sub-editor bouncing around Australia for almost thirty years. Lesfic author, genre hopper, twistiest of plot twisters

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