I Don't Look At Scripts.

A Director's Job Is To Make Something Happen And It Doesn't Happen By Itself. So You Wheedle, You Cajole, You Flatter People, You Tell Them What Needs To Be Done. And If You Don't Bring A Passion And An Intensity To It, You Shouldn't Be Doing It.

So Much Of Literary Sci-fi Is About Creating Worlds That Are Rich And Detailed And Make Sense At A Social Level. We'll Create A World For People And Then Later Present A Narrative In That World.

Avatar Is The Most High Tech Film In Terms Of Its Execution, Dealing With Essentially A Very Low Tech Subject; Which Is Our Relationship With Nature...and In Fact The Irony Is That The Film Is About Our Relationship With Nature And How Our Technological Civilization Has Taken Us Several Removes Away From A Truly Natural Existence And The Consequences Of That To Us.

Don't Get Seduced By Your Own Stuff; Work Hard To Keep A Blank Slate State Of Mind Each Time You Watch Your Film.

I Don’t Feel That I’m Making Movies For Iphones. If Someone Wants To Watch It On An Iphone, I’m Not Going To Stop Them, Especially If They’re Paying For It, But I Don’t Recommend It. I Think It’s Dumb, When You Have Characters That Are So Small In The Frame That They’re Not Visible. I’m Trying To Make An Epic.