James Cameron

Duty, because you can't have love without the fear of death, the fear of loss,

Without the need for sacrifice, without a sense of duty, what will you do to prove yourself in a loving relationship?

Played with that on Titanic, played with that on Aliens, played with that on Terminator 2, right?

And so these last two Avatar films are the same thing.

What would Jake and Nate Deary do for their children?

What would they do for their people?

And what happens when what is right for the children is not right for the people?

If the right thing is to go to war, and I know that you're all about peace and purpose and all of that, and I agree with all of those things because I think empathy is our great human superpower, which will get us through this somehow.

But I do believe there are times when you do have to fight.

I'm not a total pacifist.

And I think in my lifetime, there has not been a righteous war that the U.S.

has been involved in.

But World War II, when you have a predator that's destroying everything that is of value to people, yeah, you have to fight.

You have to fight for your survival.

So we could have a whole conversation just about this.

Yeah, so I'm an action filmmaker.

So, you know, action, I mean, if you think about it, action is just a candy-coated term for violence, right?

When it's righteous violence practiced by the good guy in defense of good people and so on, you know, we spend a lot of time justifying it to ourselves.

And I think a lot of the classic cinematic justifications aren't really sufficient, right?

Which is why I went down the road of having the Tulkun be utter pacifists, where they have rejected any kind of violent confrontation up to and almost including their own final destruction.