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

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the way you create that emotional state in a movie is by having the characters have physical jeopardy that they have to work against.

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

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

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.

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.