Failure Is An Option, Fear Is Not.

I Had Pictured Myself As A Filmmaker But I Had Never Pictured Myself As A Director If That Makes Any Sense At All.

I Was Always Fascinated By Engineering. Maybe It Was An Attempt Maybe To Get My Father's Respect Or Interest, Or Maybe It Was Just A Genetic Love Of Technology, But I Was Always Trying To Build Things.

Literary Science Fiction Is A Very, Very Narrow Band Of The Publishing Business. I Love Science Fiction In More Of A Pop-culture Sense. And By The Way, The Line Between Science Fiction And Reality Has Blurred A Lot In My Life Doing Deep Ocean Expeditions And Working On Actual Space Projects And So On. So I Tend To Be More Fascinated By The Reality Of The Science-fiction World In Which We Live.

In Writing The New Films, I’ve Come To Realize That Avatar’s World, Story And Characters Have Become Even Richer Than I Anticipated, And It Became Apparent That Two Films Would Not Be Enough To Capture Everything I Wanted To Put On Screen.

I Like The Evening In India, The One Magic Moment When The Sun Balances On The Rim Of The World, And The Hush Descends, And Ten Thousand Civil Servants Drift Homeward On A River Of Bicycles, Brooding On The Lord Krishna And The Cost Of Living.