I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.