Avatar filmmaker James Cameron has provided an update on his long-awaited Avatar sequels, noting that because he's working with such a massive budget, he "can't afford for it not to work."
"It doesn't matter how much you dress it up with great production design and great visual effects. If the story is not working, if you don't connect to the characters, it's just simply not going to work," Cameron said at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour for his new AMC show Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction.
"Of course, we can't afford for it not to work, the budget level that we are dealing with. But, of course, you always have to give yourself permission as an artist to fail no matter what the stakes are," he added. "You've got to try stuff. The least safe thing you can do is try to be safe."
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"It doesn't matter how much you dress it up with great production design and great visual effects. If the story is not working, if you don't connect to the characters, it's just simply not going to work," Cameron said at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour for his new AMC show Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction.
"Of course, we can't afford for it not to work, the budget level that we are dealing with. But, of course, you always have to give yourself permission as an artist to fail no matter what the stakes are," he added. "You've got to try stuff. The least safe thing you can do is try to be safe."
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