James Cameron prefers not to revisit his movies after they’ve opened in theaters. “I usually have a moratorium of a couple of years where I just don’t want to think about it,” he says. “There’s a certain point when you’ve been away from where you could start to be more of an audience and less of a picky filmmaker.”

The filmmaker had to break that rule, however, with 2022’s “ Avatar: The Way of Water ,” because of the impending release of the third film in the series, “ Avatar: Fire and Ash ,” in December.

“We’re going through the finish of the VFX now [on “Fire and Ash”] — we have been, really, for the last two years, but we’re really coming down to the wire now,” he says. “And I want to be thematically consistent about the way music was used and underscore during dialogue scenes an

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