Sometimes Your Whole Life Boils Down To

Writing A Screenplay, For Me, Is Like Juggling. It's Like, How Many Balls Can You Get In The Air At Once? All Those Ideas Have To Float Out There To A Certain Point, And Then They'll Crystallize Into A Pattern.

To Convince People To Back Your Idea, You've Got To Sell It To Yourself And Know When It's The Moment. Sometimes That Means Waiting. It's Like Surfing. You Don't Create Energy, You Just Harvest Energy Already Out There.

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.

I'm Willing To Engage Or Indulge Real Ideas, But If We Don't Do Something [about Global Warming], We're All Going To Die! What's It Going To Take, A Big F--ing Disaster With All Kinds Of People Dying? We Need To Change Our Priorities Fast.

I Want To Challenge All Of You As People Of Deep Conscience, People Who Are Environment Stewards Of The Earth And Oceans ... By Changing What You Eat, You Will Change The Entire Contract Between The Human Species And The Natural World.