God Wears White Flannels.

The Last I Checked, 'titanic' Worldwide Has Grossed $1.3 Billion. Imagine How Much More It Would Have Grossed If I Had Gotten The Sky Correct.

I Tend To Like Strong Female Characters. It Just Interests Me Dramatically. A Strong Male Character Isn't Interesting Because It Has Been Done And It's So Cliched. A Weak Male Character Is Interesting: Somebody Else Hasn't Done It A Hundred Times. A Strong Female Character Is Still Interesting To Me Because It Hasn't Been Done All That Much, Finding The Balance Of Femininity And Strength. [from A 1986 Fangoria Interview]

I'm A Curious Guy. I Can't Turn Away From An Investigative Story, When It Comes To The Forensic Analysis. I've Done 33 Dives, To The Titanic Wreck Site. I've Spent Over 50 Hours Piloting Robotic Vehicles At That Wreck Trying To Piece Together What Happened During The Disaster. How The Ship Broke Up, Comparing The Historical Record With The Forensic Record. Documentaries Are Kind Of My New Life. I Love Documentary Filmmaking.

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.

It's Really The Sense Of Isolation, More Than Anything, Realizing How Tiny You Are Down In This Big Vast Black Unknown And Unexplored Place.