The Magic Doesn't Come From

Getting The Audience To Cry For The Terminator At The End Of T2, For Me That Was The Whole Purpose Of Making That Film. If You Can Get The Audience To Feel Emotion For A Character That In The Previous Film You Despised Utterly And Were Terrified By, Then That's A Cinematic Arc.

Everybody Is Always Talking About Droughts And Sea Level Rise, But When Human Civilization, With More Crowding And Greater Resource Depletion, Is Under That Much Stress, It Translates Into Wars And Huge Displaced Populations. The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Just A First Taste Of What It's Going To Be Like. I Don't Want My Kids Growing Up In That Kind Of World.

With 'avatar,' I Thought, Forget All These Chick Flicks And Do A Classic Guys' Adventure Movie, Something In The Edgar Rice Burroughs Mold, Like John Carter Of Mars - A Soldier Goes To Mars.

You Don't Rest Well As Long As You're Seeking Vengeance. I Feel Sad Justice Wasn't Done, But It's Time To Move On And Sleep Well.

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.