s a s have a saying called who dares wins, and it's about assuming risk taking risk. it's something that i really liked because i think of people like me who are very credential . and you know, we often don't take risks because you have a kind of easy, you know? i mean, if you if you've gone to like some fancy colleges from fancy business school, you've got a safe job in consulting or you're not probably not going to be the guy taking the risk and becoming the entrepreneur, you know, um and you your your example of that story is the bin laden raid which was a very risky thing to do. it was, but the one thing that i bring out in there is it's important to take risk personal risk professional risk , but you want it to be calculated risk. you know the one thing they never show on the movies or talked about in the books is that three quarters of our time as navy seals are spent on a whiteboard during the planning and the rehearsing it doesn't make for a good movie. but if you don't plan the risk out of it, if you don't rehearse the risk out of it, then you're going to fail on the mission. but you've got to be prepared to take those risks or you're just never going to make that leap in life that that you need to make to be a great leader, or i think a great person in that story you have. there is another model you use, which is, you know, famous one. no plan survives contact with the enemy. but you point out that that became crucial in the bin laden raid that having plan b and plan c absolutely well, as you know, plan a did not work out so well. i mean, as soon as the first helicopter came in it lost lift. that careened off into the animal pen. and now the second helicopter landed outside the compound. so all of a sudden the entire plan that we had built plan a and had gone to hell in a handbasket. now we had to execute. plan b and plan c and plan d and but we had planned accordingly. so we were prepared to flex as we needed to in order to accomplish the mission. that 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geographic. cameron's commitment to sustainability also inspired to move to new zealand, where he and his wife live on an organic farm. we sat down recently here in new york. cameron what an honor. it's a huge honor to be on your show. fareed. thank you. so if you look at the four highest grossing films in the history of the world. you've made three of them. yeah it turns out that way , and what's extraordinary to me is i mean, each of these has grown more than $2 billion but they do it all over the world. they do well everywhere. i was in india when avatar, the new 11 came out. and india is, you know is consumed with bollywood movies. hollywood is very small presence historically. yeah except avatar was everywhere. yeah, question to you is what is it that you have found that appeals? just so many people? the things that i care about are trying to reach people emotionally, but i also am very visual, right? and you know, i get a lot of ideas from dreams and things like that. and i think that taps into the sub conscious that we all kind of share. if you believe that kind of in view of life, but i also think about that global market and i think i don't want to do stuff that's just based on kind of current memes and current little cultural, um you know, kind of ideas and trends. i want to. i want to go back to sort of classic ideas almost back to greek tragedy and things like that things that affect everybody. so, for example, the new avatar film is about family. um and blondes that we all share in any culture. any religion, any language group around the world titanic, you know about love and sacrifice and duty, which are things that, for example, you know, maybe in asia , you know, mean a lot to people . so even though they had a language barrier to surmount to watch the film, it meant something. to them, you know, so i try to just tap into universals of human experience. um beyond that i could get very specific about visual effects and things like that, but i think it's that it's that universe universal sense of who we are as human beings. you said. you think about the world audience a global audience? yes do you think it helps that you live in new zealand? you know, you've got your sort of out of america. i think it's interesting to live outside. i lived in in los angeles for 47 years. i grew up in canada before that. now that i live in new zealand, i think it's interesting to look back on american culture and society and politics and so on from an outside viewpoint and get a morning paper that sees it in a very different way. i think i think it's healthy, healthy and i think more americans should do that, you know, look into the bubble from the outside. i mean, i think if you think about it in a in a broader sense, that's how the avatar movies work. they asked us to see through the eyes of nature through these blue people. back at ourselves and our sins against nature that we collectively as a civilization doing because i don't i think maybe one in 1000 people that goes to an avatar movie as she roots for the humans, you know, but we're a human audience rooting against ourselves. if you think about it in a strange way through these kind of aspirational characters that really represent the best of us or the way we imagine we can be or maybe the way we used to be thousands of years ago. yeah you think you know, i think about this because when you look at asia, which is modernizing an urbanizing so fast, anyways, despoiling the environment even more. and yet the movies do very well in asia. yeah i think we suffer collectively from nature deficit disorder, and we all need to reconnect and i think because we were less urbanized when we were kids, certainly my age and maybe even the next generation behind me. um we long for that sort of thing we had as children where we were. we were down in the grass. we were down in the soil. we collected birds and butterflies, butterflies and flowers and things like that. we don't get that anymore. our lives are so urbanized. i mean, we're here in new york right now. it's hard to even imagine that you know when you just look out at that technical landscape i think we long for it. and so people see something that they want in their in their dreams. you know, there's i think there's something that's very kind of primitive about it and primitive in us out of mystic, right that we that we long for, and i just hope we can reconnect with that. because you know, we're our urban life is devastating nature in order to support it. how does the subconscious work as best you can tell because you were saying you get a lot of your ideas from dreams to people in a way that they don't think of themselves. i think a lot of people as having this nature deficit disorder. they might just going around there. but somehow, you know, it does feel like you're tapping into that, right. well i do think i do think we have certain innate programming that's at a very deep level, much lower than higher brain function. and i think our subconscious when it's operating , either in the background during the day or at night, where it sort of takes over is sort of. it's sort of processing internally in a way that scientists don't really understand dreams and the psychological purpose that they serve. i think they're kind of like a generative. a i, you know, i think they're making imagery from vast data set. that's our entire experience in life, and it's just making imagery and then another part of our brain is supplying a narrative that goes along with it. and the narrative doesn't always make much sense, you know, but we're storytelling to ourselves all night all night long, or at least during rem sleep, you know, and i'm not a dream expert. i want to say up front or neuroscientist, but i think this is what's happening. and we're trying to make sense of the world because we don't really remember like a videotape . we remember stories like strings of beads. you know, i went to a party. okay i remember where it was. that's a bead, but you don't you can't play back a whole tape of the whole thing. i'll remember this as only image a picture of you and some of the topics that we talked about, but i won't be able to play it back like a videotape. and if i do play back, you know a recording of it. i'll go. we said that that was cool or or not or embarrass myself. i wish i could take it back. so billy joel said to me that he gets a lot of his his music from from dreams, and they're interesting. you know, he'd get up and or even later on , he realized it's always the core, which was for him. always the melody, the harmony, not the words. the words were later adult. interesting what do you explain how your dreams work? sounds to me like for him. it's musical. for me. it's images. images and, um, you know, so just a bunch of random, sometimes very surreal images, sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying. and i have lately been thinking that there's a little bit of it's not just the picture. there's a little metadata running underneath it. that's telling me what the picture means, you know, so, for example, the terminator was based on a single image. of chrome skeleton emerging out of fire. but the metadata said it used to look like a man covered in flesh and the fire burned it away. and so it's a it's actually a story segment and you start putting those story segments together and then starts to turn into a story. you want to tell other people and i think storyteller sitting around the campfire in a in a cave 50,000 years ago, we're doing the same thing. and so when you get those images do you say to yourself? you know, first of all, just mechanically. do you write it down, you would write it down sometimes or actually. draw it. what you know, i remember the background isn't as as an artist as a figurative artist. yeah exactly. representational um, you know, illustrator, i guess would be a better a better term. but yeah, i used to love to draw and paint and that's right. i still do. but not as much. because now and my current level of work in film. the film is my painting. the film is my art, and i get to work with the very best you know, illustrators and design artists in the world, so i don't do it as much as i used to. i work through them and they're better than i ever was. so it's okay. but movies are a strange kind of art because it's partly an art, but partly there's a lot of technology. i mean, look at and you could see. there's just so many cameras around. there's some lights and sound and computers and you really embrace the scientific part of all that. i love the i love the tech. i love the engineering. my mother was an artist and my father was an engineer. and so you know, it's really large. you know, i love the tech and i love creating new tech. you know, when i was at the i was at the advancing wavefront of cg as it started to sweep through, and this was going back 30 years now, but you know, the abyss was the first 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10 and by 2012 . we had a finished sub that we were out diving in the deep trenches in papua new guinea and then ultimately the challenger deep, so it's so it's almost one way to think about you as as a, you know, a kind of explorer technologists, inventor. who's i mean, that seems to be motivating you a lot and then and then you become a movie maker. kind of that's true. well, i think a key aspect of exploration is coming back and telling the story. you know, i think that the best explorers are also good storytellers and good recorders of the image. shackleton took big eight by 10 camera with them, and some of those plates are are so famous and iconic that they slept with them against all odds. and if you know the shackle the story, i'm sure you do incredible odds that they fought to get back. but they brought back the pictures, you know, and the pictures coming back from the moon that the first apollo landing crew brought back are so important and so iconic for us, so, yeah, it's not a big stretch for me from filmmaking to exploration. i just shift my filmmaking to documentary mode. you know, and i found documentaries to be pretty challenging. you know, you spend a lot of time in the editing room on a documentary. why because there's no script, you know, and with ocean exploration, the ocean didn't get your script, so it doesn't exactly show up at nine a.m. to do what you wanted to do, and so you get a lot of random footage and you never know quite if you've got a story or not, until you get into the cutting room, and then it emerges and it might take a year or more. to cut a good documentary. tell me about being vegan, um, and how it relates to york, your um, admiration for nature. well look, nature is threatened by a lot of different things simultaneously, and he wasn't really interesting thing. so if you think of it like a venn diagram, and you've got deforestation here, loss of habitat biodiversity loss. um you know, uh, carbon carbon in the in the ocean, that's that's causing the reefs to degrade and in the atmosphere that's causing climate change. the center of that venn diagram that connects all of those things, and it's common to all of them is animal agriculture. because you know, water pollution and all these things, so i knew that years ago and i thought, well, too bad we have to eat. we have to eat meat to be healthy, right? and then i saw a film called force overnight, which spelled that myth. and then that took me to the china study. and i read that very, very sick, dense book. lots of graphs and things like that. a lot of double blind studies. and really drilling down on the data. i realized that that film wasn't right. we don't need animal protein. in fact, it's very deleterious for our health, but i was approaching it from a sustainability standpoint. and i thought, wow. one elegant solution. we just stopped. so my wife and i talked to susie, susie and i, and we just we just went hate to use the word vegan because i think it's off. putting people think it's kind of a hippie new age kind of kind of thing, as opposed to whole food plant based diet, which requires no animal whatever anything, cheese, milk, meat, fish any of that, and i've been on that for 11 years, so i just wanted to be like a guinea pig in an experiment and see for myself same thing as exploration. i want to go to the bottom of the ocean and see for myself. you could do anything you want, but you want to make more avatar movies. what what? what is it? is it that you know this is part of a continuing project. it's an ongoing project, and i decided to make it a kind of an epic project because i like big challenges, and i'm written out through the end of avatar, five were shot or finished shooting through the end of avatar three actually a bit into into four. so this is a big kind of epic cycle that i feel i have to complete. i also looked at it long and hard. like you said. i didn't go right. shooting the sequel. i took time out. i did a sub. i did some other things. i did a lot of work with indigenous communities around the world because they had responded to the messaging and avatar and drew me into their to their world. and i thought, okay, i can do some good here i start to realize i think i can do more good with another another avatar movie than getting caught in 1000 small local battles where i'm not an expert. you know, there were people already on the ground, so i formed a foundation called the avatar lance foundation to fund some of these ngos to fight these battles, and then i started to leapfrog ahead to do some more avatar film because i figured i just need to keep keep on with that messaging about how we need to connect with each other. how we need to reconnect with nature. how we need to defend. her you know, i think of it in the story as a kind of a female deity because we all have a mother and we understand that we're dependent on that mother, so it's a natural and that natural symbology comes out of so many different indigenous sources as well. that's a wonderful way to very elegantly and simply summarized. it seems to me your life's message, which is we need to connect with each other and connect with nature. exactly. empathy will save us. you know, but empathy is a double edged sword because typically we cast the circle of empathy too close and that creates an in group that we fight for, and an out group that we fight against, you know, so we need to expand that spotlight of empathy to the people that are just like us around the world, especially the ones that are suffering because of climate change, and some of the other degradations. we can do it, you know, movies can help. you know, um, education can help. you know, and just our own will to survive can help. but for you, the battle isn't finished until we have extended that empathy to the whole world. exactly we need to think of ourselves as the indigenous people of planet earth. and we're all part of the same tribe. you know they have a they have a saying in new zealand, which is the team of five million. and so when the when the virus hit the team of five million work together, and they wound up with the vaccination rate of a barn, i think 96 or 97. as opposed to, you know better than i somewhere around 66% in the in the u. s that that team spirit, you know, and you can extend the extended their empathy bubble out to five million people in the whole country. um and that doesn't happen here, and it doesn't happen a lot in a lot of countries, but it happens there. so now the question is, can we push it? another couple of orders of magnitude farther out, you know, and cr cr commonality everywhere. james cameron. pleasure to have you on that went fast and it was great. thanks thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. don't forget, if you miss a show , go to cnn dot com slash fareed for a link to my itunes podcast. these are our sales by product by region. you can 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