Sometimes Your Whole Life Boils Down To

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 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.

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.

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.

There Seems To Be A Lot Of Excitement Around Something That, To Me, Is A Yawn, Frankly.