James Cameron

And there will be some people for whom it is beneath them to even consider enjoying an Avatar movie.

And there are some people that just don't get it.

On the other end, you know what I mean?

But I'm looking at that bell curve.

And I think there are some filmmakers that want to indicate that they're smarter than the audience and challenge them to try to keep up and pirouette their intelligence.

Not to say they're not intelligent, but come on, guys.

It's entertainment.

Yeah, I see.

It can have deeper meaning.

I mean, I like to have thematic layering here.

And I like to have things that mean something to me, and if people pick up on it, great.

But I won't make the story hinge on that.

So I don't know.

Maybe it's that drive-in movie.

College of Cinematic Knowledge, the drive-in movie theaters of Orange County paying off.

Well, I think it's not a question of taking a risk for risk's sake, but I do think the biggest risk as an artist is to not take risks because then you're just doing what you've done and what you know and

and or what other people have done, which is even worse, just being in a kind of a comfort zone of mediocrity.

So yeah, I think you do take risks, but having taken that risk, you then do everything within your power to make sure that you are communicating that it is working, that you're not jeopardizing large amounts of other people's money by doing something foolish.

Titanic was a risk.

It was a very, very expensive film in which basically everybody dies, and it was a period piece, and it was three hours long.