James Cameron

But for me, it's about getting those characters down on the page, bringing it in,

With my actors, and the beauty of the two sequels is that I was writing for actors I knew.

And I could hear the way they'd say it.

And I didn't feel the dialogue was right until I knew that Slang, Stephen Lang, who plays Gorge, would say it that way.

Or Sam would say it that way, or Zoe would say it that way.

And then, of course, I threw a new element in, which is Una Chaplin saying,

who plays Varang, who is a pretty terrifying character at times.

And I was making her up out of whole cloth, obviously.

I didn't know who the actor was that was going to play her.

But that's the part where I think that engagement that you were talking about, it's not just sensory and visual.

It's also heartfelt, right?

Yeah, I would have to agree.

And we bring our own human experience to it every time we walk into a movie theater.

And I also think a critical part of the engagement is the theatrical experience.

So a lot was made during the rise of DVD and Blu-ray and all that.

A lot was made about the fact, oh, well, you don't have a screen that big.

Your sound isn't that good.

The theater is a better experience.

But we're at the point now where probably your home TV set and your home sound bar and everything is as good as what you're going to see in a movie theater.

So that goes away.