I Never Feel There's Anything I Can't

Writing Screenplays Is Very Freeing From What You Can Do In Comics In A Lot Of Ways. You Can Change Things Around. I Can Take Great Delight In Writing 40 Pages, Then Just Pressing Delete And Getting Rid Of It And Not Thinking About It Ever Again. Whereas In Comics, If I Had Put That Kind Of Effort Into It, I Couldn't Go On.

Avatar Is A Total Nerd Thing, And Yet Our Popular Culture Has Somehow Made All That Stuff Acceptable.

That's Been My Main Interest For The Last 15 Years, Is To Really Make Sure The Story And The Characters Take Precedence Over Everything Else, And That I Give Them Everything I Can To Make Them Exist As Actual People.

I Believe In The Transformative Power Of Cinema. It Is Only Through This Shared Dream-experience That We Can Transcend The Oppressive Minutiae Of Daily Existence And Find Some Spiritual Connection In The Deeper Reality Of Our Mutual Desire.

I Never Know If A Book Is Crazy Or Not. There's That Fear - This Is The One That Will End It All.