James Cameron said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that he’s given his filmmaking career entirely to the “ Avatar ” franchise for decades in the hope of doing good for the world and not just making boat loads of money, which the films have been quite good at doing so far. The director’s original “Avatar” film from 2009 is the highest-grossing movie of all time (unadjusted for inflation) with $2.9 billion. The 2022 sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” is the third highest-grossing movie ever with $2.3 billion.

“I’ve justified making ‘Avatar’ movies to myself for the last 20 years, not based on how much money we made, but on the basis that hopefully it can do some good,” Cameron told the publication. “It can help connect us, it can help connect us to our lost aspect of ourself

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