James Cameron

She can do all that stuff better than I can.

I'm just a bystander to that part of it.

But I think about what I do.

I come in and I say, guys, we're going to do the coolest woven tropical village, overwater village.

Now, but what is that?

You'd think that they could create that in a week or two weeks.

No, it took a year.

And because part of the provocation was – and it all has to be intention.

Nothing is built with rigid cut lumber the way we would do it where we create posts that are in –

compression right everything's in tension it's like a spider web it's all woven between these big structures like the mangrove roots and so they were actually sculpting with pantyhose to get the right degree of elasticity to put it all in tension they sculpted the village with pantyhose this is absolutely true and then they they wove these little structures that later became the the homes and the walkways and all that

And then they developed it from there.

And then eventually we started building full-scale, not full-scale, but say quarter-scale models of these woven structures.

And so when you walk through it, you don't really get a chance.

I always want to give a little more than you can fully perceive.

Because isn't that what daily life is like?

There's always more going by than you can fully perceive.

And so the brain becomes selective.

Okay, what's narratively important to me in the moment?

Yeah, right.

That's a goal, right?