James Cameron

In fact, it might be my least successful film.

But I just feel it's that thing of duty.

You're all about purpose.

We define our own purpose.

We choose purpose for ourselves.

And it doesn't all have to be obviously benevolent, like maybe helping out a soup kitchen and easing the pain of others.

It might be something that's more of a warning that helps guide us away from the rocks of destruction, of civilization.

As an artist, I think it's important to consider these things, you know, and not feel powerless.

Because it's easy in a world of 8 billion people to feel powerless.

And yet empirically, I can look at it, oh, I'm reaching millions of people.

I'm reaching hundreds of millions of people with a movie like Avatar.

You know, maybe I won't reach as many people with a movie like Ghosts of Hiroshima, but I'll reach some.

You know, and you never know.

You never know the causal chain that puts a person at a moment where they've been influenced by something.

And just seeing each other.

Ultimately, it all goes back to connection.

Is that the root?

Yeah, I think so.

There are two moments in the film where people say they see each other and they understand each other.

And one gives you this feeling of vast dread when Varang says she sees Kauraj.