James Cameron

We have to do what we can do.

Our voice may carry not very far or it may ripple outward very far.

We have to do what we can do.

And for me, what drives me is being a parent and knowing that there's a legacy that's being handed to my kids by my generation.

And I just want it to be the best that it can be.

It's not going to be perfect.

It might not even be that great.

But everything that people like yourself and hopefully I do can improve it incrementally.

And so anyway, you just keep banging away at it, right?

Well, you're using the term connection, and I think of that as an extension of our impulse to empathy.

We have a natural human impulse toward empathy.

I think we all have it, unless you're a psychopath, and that's 1% of the population.

So 99% of the population has an impulse toward empathy.

I think where empathy goes awry is that it's narrow and powerful as opposed to more diffuse, right?

So when we have...

an empathy for our family, for our children, for our friends, then everybody else starts to look like an enemy.

And I think it's that narrow spotlight of empathy where it breaks down.

On the other hand, we can hear a story about somebody in another state or another country and all of a sudden we're weeping for that person because our mirroring on allows us to feel their pain.

But we can't feel the pain of the world.

And