James Cameron

I'd love to ask him, but unfortunately, he died tragically in a car accident.

Because I wanted to like, can I just spend millions of dollars studying your mind, please?

There you go.

I think both.

Both.

I mean, the thing that I've tried to do in the Avatar films is create a dynamic range of experience from ecstatic to terrifying to heart-wrenching.

from despair to joy, all of those things.

I think movies are pretty good at creating a state, maybe a state of dread or something like that, but I don't think they're good at taking you on that rollercoaster ride that more is the way our real existence is.

So I wanted to have amazing moments of beauty.

I think beauty gets forgotten in movies these days.

Everything is about threat and conflict.

and all that.

But I also wanted to take you on an emotional journey where you get to places that are either terrifying or heart-wrenching through loss or whatever.

And that's all dependent on performance.

That's all dependent on the actors.

The actors are...

our path through this, our conduit.

We see it all through their eyes.

So for me, the real act of creation, everybody is quite enamored of the world building because that's what they see.

They see the end result.