I Don't Look At Scripts. I Just

There Is A Vast Frontier That's Going To Take Us A While To Understand... It Was Very Lunar, A Very Desolate Place, Isolated.

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.

It Was Long Ago In My Life As A Simple Reporter That I Decided That Facts Must Never Get In The Way Of Truth.

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.

It's Important For Me To Have Hope Because That's My Job As A Parent, To Have Hope, For My Kids, That We're Not Going To Leave Them In A World That's In Shambles, That's A Chaotic Place, That's A Dangerous Place.