I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

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.