Writing A Screenplay, For Me, Is Like

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.

I Guess Titanic Because It Made The Most Money. No, I`m Kidding. I Don`t Really Have A Favorite. Maybe Terminator Because That Was The Film That Was The First One Back When I Was Essentially A Truck Driver.

If You Set Your Goals Ridiculously High And It's A Failure, You Will Fail Above Everyone Else's Success.

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.

I Actually Started As A Model Builder And Quickly Progressed Into Production Design, Which Made Sense Because I Could Draw And Paint. But I Kept Watching That Guy Over There Who Was Moving The Actors Around And Setting Up The Shots.