I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.