Before Avatar ... a curious boy | James Cameron

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I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction.

Odrastao sam na znanstvenoj fantastici.

In high school, I took a bus to school

U srednjoj sam školi putovao autobusom

an hour each way every day.

jedan sat u oba pravca svaki dan.

And I was always absorbed in a book,

I uvijek sam bio udubljen u knjigu,

science fiction book,

knjigu znanstvene fantastike,

which took my mind to other worlds,

koja je odnosila moj um u druge svjetove,

and satisfied, in a narrative form,

i koja je zadovoljavala, u narativnom obliku,

this insatiable sense of curiosity that I had.

nezasitan osjećaj znatiželje koji sam imao.

And you know, that curiosity also manifested itself

Znatiželja se također manifestirala

in the fact that whenever I wasn't in school

u činjenici da kad god nisam bio u školi

I was out in the woods,

bio sam vani u šumi,

hiking and taking "samples" --

planinario i uzimao "uzorke",

frogs and snakes and bugs and pond water --

žabe, zmije, kukce i vodu iz ribnjaka,

and bringing it back, looking at it under the microscope.

i donosio ih nazad, promatrao ih pod mikroskopom.

You know, I was a real science geek.

Bio sam pravi znanstveni lumen.

But it was all about trying to understand the world,

No radilo se o pokušaju da se razumije svijet,

understand the limits of possibility.

razumiju granice mogućnosti.

And my love of science fiction

I moja ljubav prema znanstvenoj fantastici

actually seemed mirrored in the world around me,

zapravo kao da se zrcalila u svijetu oko mene,

because what was happening, this was in the late '60s,

zbog toga što se događalo, bilo je to kasnih '60-ih,

we were going to the moon,

putovali smo na mjesec,

we were exploring the deep oceans.

istraživali smo duboke oceane.

Jacques Cousteau was coming into our living rooms

Jacques Cousteau je dolazio u naše dnevne boravke

with his amazing specials that showed us

sa svojim nevjerojatnim specijalima koji su nam pokazivali

animals and places and a wondrous world

životinje i mjesta i prekrasan svijet

that we could never really have previously imagined.

koje nikad prije nismo mogli ni zamisliti.

So, that seemed to resonate

Dakle, to je izgleda imalo odjek

with the whole science fiction part of it.

u svoj toj znanstvenoj fantastici.

And I was an artist.

I bio sam umjetnik.

I could draw. I could paint.

Mogao sam crtati. Mogao sam slikati.

And I found that because there weren't video games

I otkrio sam to jer tada nije bilo videoigara

and this saturation of CG movies and all of this

i te zasićenosti kompjuterski stvorenim filmovima i svih tih

imagery in the media landscape,

slika u medijskom krajoliku,

I had to create these images in my head.

morao sam stvarati te slike u svojoj glavi.

You know, we all did, as kids having to

Znate, svi smo to radili, kao djeca koja su morala

read a book, and through the author's description,

čitati knjigu, i putem autorovog opisa

put something on the movie screen in our heads.

staviti nešto na filmsko platno u našim glavama.

And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw

Dakle, moj odgovor na to bio je da bojam, da slikam

alien creatures, alien worlds,

vanzemaljska stvorenja, vanzemaljske svjetove,

robots, spaceships, all that stuff.

robote, svemirske brodove, i tomu slično.

I was endlessly getting busted in math class

Znali bi me uloviti na satovima matematike

doodling behind the textbook.

kako šaram iza udžbenika.

That was -- the creativity

To jest, kreativnost je

had to find its outlet somehow.

morala nekako izaći.

And an interesting thing happened: The Jacques Cousteau shows

I dogodila se zanimljiva stvar, emisije Jacquesa Cousteaua

actually got me very excited about the fact that there was

zapravo su me jako uzbudile zbog činjenice da postoji

an alien world right here on Earth.

vanzemaljski svijet upravo ovdje na Zemlji.

I might not really go to an alien world

Možda neću stvarno otići u vanzemaljski svijet

on a spaceship someday --

svemirskim brodom jednog dana.

that seemed pretty darn unlikely.

To je izgledalo sasvim nevjerojatno.

But that was a world I could really go to,

No to je bio svijet u koji sam stvarno mogao ići,

right here on Earth, that was as rich and exotic

upravo ovdje na Zemlji, to je bilo bogato i egzotično

as anything that I had imagined

kao bilo što što sam mogao zamisliti

from reading these books.

čitajući te knjige.

So, I decided I was going to become a scuba diver

Dakle, odlučio sam postati ronilac

at the age of 15.

s 15 godina.

And the only problem with that was that I lived

I jedini je problem bio u tome što sam živio

in a little village in Canada,

u malom mjestu u Kanadi,

600 miles from the nearest ocean.

600 milja od najbližeg oceana.

But I didn't let that daunt me.

No nisam dopustio da me to zaplaši.

I pestered my father until he finally found

Dosađivao sam svom ocu dok napokon nije pronašao

a scuba class in Buffalo, New York,

tečaj ronjenja u Buffalu, New Yorku,

right across the border from where we live.

prekoputa granice gdje smo živjeli.

And I actually got certified

I stvarno sam dobio licencu

in a pool at a YMCA in the dead of winter

u bazenu u YMCA-u usred zime

in Buffalo, New York.

u Buffalu, New Yorku.

And I didn't see the ocean, a real ocean,

I nisam vidio ocean, pravi ocean,

for another two years,

sljedeće dvije godine,

until we moved to California.

sve dok se nismo preselili u Kaliforniju.

Since then, in the intervening

Otada, u posljednjih

40 years,

40 godina,

I've spent about 3,000 hours underwater,

proveo sam oko 3.000 sati pod vodom,

and 500 hours of that was in submersibles.

I od toga 500 sati u podvodnim plovilima.

And I've learned that that deep-ocean environment,

I naučio sam da je taj okoliš u dubokom oceanu,

and even the shallow oceans,

i čak u pličinama,

are so rich with amazing life

toliko bogat nevjerojatnim životom

that really is beyond our imagination.

da doista nadmašuje našu maštu.

Nature's imagination is so boundless

Mašta prirode je bezgranična

compared to our own

u usporedbi s našom

meager human imagination.

siromašnom ljudskom maštom.

I still, to this day, stand in absolute awe

I još uvijek sam pun strahopoštovanja

of what I see when I make these dives.

prema onome što vidim dok ronim.

And my love affair with the ocean is ongoing,

I moja ljubav prema oceanu još traje

and just as strong as it ever was.

i jača je no ikad.

But when I chose a career as an adult,

No, kad sam odabrao zvanje, kao odrastao čovjek,

it was filmmaking.

bilo je to stvaranje filmova.

And that seemed to be the best way to reconcile

I to je izgleda bio najbolji način da se pomiri

this urge I had to tell stories

ta težnja koju sam imao da pričam priče,

with my urges to create images.

s mojim težnjama da stvaram slike.

And I was, as a kid, constantly drawing comic books, and so on.

I stalno sam, kao dijete, crtao stripove, i tako dalje.

So, filmmaking was the way to put pictures and stories

Dakle, stvaranje filmova bio je način da spojim slike i priče.

together, and that made sense.

I to je imalo smisla.

And of course the stories that I chose to tell

I naravno da su priče koje sam odabrao da ispričam

were science fiction stories: "Terminator," "Aliens"

bile znanstveno-fantastične priče: "Terminator", "Aliens",

and "The Abyss."

i "Bezdan".

And with "The Abyss," I was putting together my love

I s "Bezdanom" spojio sam svoju ljubav

of underwater and diving with filmmaking.

prema podmorju i ronjenju, sa stvaranjem filmova.

So, you know, merging the two passions.

Znate, stapanje dviju strasti.

Something interesting came out of "The Abyss,"

Nešto je zanimljivo proizašlo iz "Bezdana",

which was that to solve a specific narrative

morali smo riješiti specifični narativni

problem on that film,

problem u tom filmu,

which was to create this kind of liquid water creature,

stvoriti tu vrstu bića od tekuće vode,

we actually embraced computer generated animation, CG.

i morali smo preuzetu kompjuterski stvorenu animaciju, CG.

And this resulted in the first soft-surface

I to je rezultiralo prvim likom

character, CG animation

s mekanom površinom, kompjuterska animacija

that was ever in a movie.

koje nikad prije nije bilo u filmu.

And even though the film didn't make any money --

I iako film nije donio zaradu,

barely broke even, I should say --

jedva se isplatio, rekao bih,

I witnessed something amazing, which is that the audience,

svjedočio sam nečemu nevjerojatnom - publika iz cijelog svijeta

the global audience, was mesmerized

bila je hipnotizirana

by this apparent magic.

tom očitom čarolijom.

You know, it's Arthur Clarke's law

Znate, zakon Arthura Clarkea kaže

that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

da je bilo koja dovoljno napredna tehnologija neodvojiva od čarolije.

They were seeing something magical.

Vidjeli su nešto čarobno.

And so that got me very excited.

I to me je jako uzbudilo.

And I thought, "Wow, this is something that needs to be embraced

I pomislio sam, "Uh, to je nešto što treba primijeniti

into the cinematic art."

u kinematografiji."

So, with "Terminator 2," which was my next film,

Dakle, s "Terminatorom 2", mojim sljedećim filmom,

we took that much farther.

otišli smo puno dalje.

Working with ILM, we created the liquid metal dude

Radeći s ILM-om, stvorili smo čovjeka od tekućeg metala

in that film. The success hung in the balance

u tom filmu. Uspjeh filma je ovisio o tome

on whether that effect would work.

da li će taj efekt uspjeti.

And it did, and we created magic again,

I uspio je. I opet smo stvorili čaroliju.

and we had the same result with an audience --

I imali smo isti rezultat s publikom.

although we did make a little more money on that one.

Mada smo zaradili malo više novca na tom filmu.

So, drawing a line through those two dots

Dakle, spajajući te dvije vrste

of experience

iskustva,

came to, "This is going to be a whole new world,"

shvatio sam da će to biti sasvim novi svijet,

this was a whole new world of creativity

to je bio sasvim novi svijet kreativnosti

for film artists.

za filmske umjetnike.

So, I started a company with Stan Winston,

Dakle, osnovao sam kompaniju sa Stanom Winstonom,

my good friend Stan Winston,

mojim dobrim prijateljem,

who is the premier make-up and creature designer

glavnim dizajnerom kreatura i šminke

at that time, and it was called Digital Domain.

u to vrijeme, i nazvana je Digital Domain.

And the concept of the company was

Ideja kompanije je bila

that we would leapfrog past

da preskočimo

the analog processes of optical printers and so on,

analogne procese optičkih printera i tomu slično,

and we would go right to digital production.

i odmah prijeđemo na digitalnu obradu.

And we actually did that and it gave us a competitive advantage for a while.

I doista smo to učinili i to nam je dalo konkurentsku prednost na neko vrijeme.

But we found ourselves lagging in the mid '90s

No sredinom '90-ih smo zaostajali

in the creature and character design stuff

u dizajniranju stvorova i likova

that we had actually founded the company to do.

zbog čega smo zapravo i osnovali kompaniju.

So, I wrote this piece called "Avatar,"

Dakle, napisao sam komad pod nazivom "Avatar",

which was meant to absolutely push the envelope

koji je trebao apsolutno pomaknuti granice

of visual effects,

vizualnih efekata,

of CG effects, beyond,

kompjuterski stvorenih efekata, više,

with realistic human emotive characters

s karakterima realističnih ljudskih emocija

generated in CG,

kompjuterski stvorenih

and the main characters would all be in CG,

i glavni karakteri su trebali biti kompjuterski animirani.

and the world would be in CG.

Također i njihov svijet.

And the envelope pushed back,

No granice su se vratile.

and I was told by the folks at my company

I ljudi iz moje kompanije su mi rekli

that we weren't going to be able to do this for a while.

da to nećemo moći učiniti neko vrijeme.

So, I shelved it, and I made this other movie about a big ship that sinks.

Stavio sam to na policu, i napravio taj drugi film o velikom brodu koji tone.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

You know, I went and pitched it to the studio as "'Romeo and Juliet' on a ship:

Znate, predstavio sam ga studiju kao "'Romeo i Julija' na brodu".

"It's going to be this epic romance,

Bit će to epska romantična priča,

passionate film."

strastven film.

Secretly, what I wanted to do was

Potajno sam htio

I wanted to dive to the real wreck of "Titanic."

roniti do stvarne olupine "Titanika".

And that's why I made the movie.

I zato sam napravio taj film.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

And that's the truth. Now, the studio didn't know that.

I to je istina. Studio to nije znao.

But I convinced them. I said,

No uvjerio sam ih. Rekao sam,

"We're going to dive to the wreck. We're going to film it for real.

"Namjeravamo roniti do olupine. Namjeravamo je stvarno snimiti.

We'll be using it in the opening of the film.

Upotrijebit ćemo to na početku filma.

It will be really important. It will be a great marketing hook."

To će biti doista važno. Bit će to veliki marketinški trik."

And I talked them into funding an expedition.

I nagovorio sam ih da financiraju ekspediciju.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Sounds crazy. But this goes back to that theme

Zvuči ludo. No to se vraća na temu o

about your imagination creating a reality.

vašoj mašti koja stvara realnost.

Because we actually created a reality where six months later,

Zato što smo mi zapravo stvorili realnost šest mjeseci kasnije

I find myself in a Russian submersible

u ruskoj podmornici

two and a half miles down in the north Atlantic,

dvije i pol milje dolje u sjevernom Atlantiku,

looking at the real Titanic through a view port.

gledajući stvarni Titanik kroz prozorčić,

Not a movie, not HD -- for real.

ne kao film, ne u HD-u, za stvarno.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Now, that blew my mind.

To me potreslo.

And it took a lot of preparation, we had to build cameras

Puno smo se pripremali, morali smo napraviti kamere

and lights and all kinds of things.

i svjetla i razno razne stvari.

But, it struck me how much

No iznenadilo me koliko je

this dive, these deep dives,

taj zaron, ti duboki zaroni

was like a space mission.

bili nalik na svemirsku misiju.

You know, where it was highly technical,

Znate, bilo je visokotehnološko

and it required enormous planning.

i zahtijevalo je puno planiranja.

You get in this capsule, you go down to this dark

Ulazite u tu kapsulu, idete dolje u to mračno

hostile environment

neprijateljsko okruženje

where there is no hope of rescue

gdje nema nade za spas

if you can't get back by yourself.

ako se ne možeš vratiti sam.

And I thought like, "Wow. I'm like,

I pomislio sam, "Uh. Kao da

living in a science fiction movie.

živim u znanstveno-fantastičnom filmu.

This is really cool."

To je stvarno cool."

And so, I really got bitten by the bug of deep-ocean exploration.

Doista sam se bio navukao na istraživanja dubokih oceana.

Of course, the curiosity, the science component of it --

Naravno, znatiželja, znanstvena komponenta svega toga.

it was everything. It was adventure,

To je bilo sve. Avantura,

it was curiosity, it was imagination.

znatiželja. Mašta.

And it was an experience that

To je bilo iskustvo koje mi

Hollywood couldn't give me.

Hollywood nije mogao dati.

Because, you know, I could imagine a creature and we could

Zato što mogu zamisliti stvorenje i mi možemo

create a visual effect for it. But I couldn't imagine what I was seeing

stvoriti vizualni efekt za nj. No ja nisam mogao zamisliti ono što sam vidio

out that window.

kroz taj prozorčić.

As we did some of our subsequent expeditions,

Kako smo išli na daljnje ekspedicije

I was seeing creatures at hydrothermal vents

viđao sam stvorenja kraj hidrotermalnih otvora

and sometimes things that I had never seen before,

i ponekad stvari koje nikad prije nisam vidio,

sometimes things that no one had seen before,

ponekad stvari koje nitko prije nije vidio,

that actually were not described by science

koje zapravo znanost još nije objasnila

at the time that we saw them and imaged them.

u vrijeme kad smo ih vidjeli i snimili.

So, I was completely smitten by this,

Bio sam potpuno očaran time,

and had to do more.

i morao sam napraviti više.

And so, I actually made a kind of curious decision.

Zapravo sam donio svojevrsnu zanimljivu odluku.

After the success of "Titanic,"

Nakon uspjeha "Titanika",

I said, "OK, I'm going to park my day job

rekao sam, "U redu, zasad ću ostaviti svoj posao

as a Hollywood movie maker,

hollywoodskog filmaša,

and I'm going to go be a full-time explorer for a while."

i postat ću istraživač na neko vrijeme."

And so, we started planning these

Počeli smo planirati te

expeditions.

ekspedicije.

And we wound up going to the Bismark,

I završili bi kod Bismarka,

and exploring it with robotic vehicles.

i istraživali ga robotskim vozilom.

We went back to the Titanic wreck.

Vratili smo se olupini Titanika.

We took little bots that we had created

Uzeli smo male robote koje smo napravili

that spooled a fiber optic.

koji su vukli optičko vlakno.

And the idea was to go in and do an interior

Zamisao je bila da se uđe unutra i pregleda

survey of that ship, which had never been done.

unutrašnjost broda, što nikad prije nije napravljeno.

Nobody had ever looked inside the wreck. They didn't have the means to do it,

Nitko nikad nije pogledao unutar olupine. Nisu postojala sredstva za to,

so we created technology to do it.

pa smo mi stvorili tehnologiju da se to napravi.

So, you know, here I am now, on the deck

Dakle, ovdje sam, na palubi

of Titanic, sitting in a submersible,

Titanika, sjedim u podmornici,

and looking out at planks that look much like this,

i gledam pod nalik na ovaj,

where I knew that the band had played.

za koji sam znao da je na njemu svirao orkestar.

And I'm flying a little robotic vehicle

I upravljam malim robotskim vozilom

through the corridor of the ship.

kroz hodnik broda.

When I say, "I'm operating it,"

Kad kažem, upravljam njime,

but my mind is in the vehicle.

no moj um je u vozilu.

I felt like I was physically present

Osjećao sam kao da sam fizički prisutan

inside the shipwreck of Titanic.

u olupini Titanika.

And it was the most surreal kind

I to je bilo najveće nadrealističko

of deja vu experience I've ever had,

iskustvo "već viđenog" koje sam ikad imao,

because I would know before I turned a corner

zato što sam znao prije nego što bih zašao za ugao

what was going to be there before the lights

što će se pojaviti prije nego što to svjetla

of the vehicle actually revealed it,

vozila stvarno otkriju,

because I had walked the set for months

zato što sam šetao setom mjesecima

when we were making the movie.

kad smo snimali film.

And the set was based as an exact replica

I set se bazirao na točnoj kopiji

on the blueprints of the ship.

nacrta broda.

So, it was this absolutely remarkable experience.

Dakle, bilo je to apsolutno izvanredno iskustvo.

And it really made me realize that

Shvatio sam da je

the telepresence experience --

iskustvo daljinskog upravljanja moguće,

that you actually can have these robotic avatars,

da doista možete imati te robotske avatare,

then your consciousness is injected into the vehicle,

gdje je vaša svijest ubačena u vozilo,

into this other form of existence.

u taj drugi oblik postojanja.

It was really, really quite profound.

Bilo je to stvarno stvarno intenzivno iskustvo.

And it may be a little bit of a glimpse as to what might be happening

I možda tračak nečega što će se događati

some decades out

za nekoliko desetljeća

as we start to have cyborg bodies

kad ćemo imati kibernetička tijela

for exploration or for other means

za istraživanje ili u neke druge svrhe

in many sort of

u različitim oblicima

post-human futures

postljudskih budućnosti

that I can imagine,

koje mogu zamisliti,

as a science fiction fan.

kao obožavatelj znanstvene fantastike.

So, having done these expeditions,

Dakle, bio sam na tim ekspedicijama,

and really beginning to appreciate what was down there,

stvarno sam počeo cijeniti ono što se nalazi tamo dolje,

such as at the deep ocean vents

primjerice kraj otvora u dubokom oceanu

where we had these amazing, amazing animals --

gdje se nalaze te nevjerojatne nevjerojatne životinje.

they're basically aliens right here on Earth.

To su u osnovi vanzemaljci upravo ovdje na Zemlji.

They live in an environment of chemosynthesis.

Žive u okruženju kemosinteze.

They don't survive on sunlight-based

Ne mogu preživjeti u sustavu

system the way we do.

koji se bazira na suncu, kao mi.

And so, you're seeing animals that are living next to

Možete vidjeti životinje koje žive pokraj

a 500-degree-Centigrade

mlazova vode

water plumes.

temperature 500 Celzijevih stupnjeva.

You think they can't possibly exist.

Mislite da jednostavno ne mogu postojati.

At the same time

Istovremeno sam

I was getting very interested in space science as well --

postao jako zainteresiran za znanost o svemiru,

again, it's the science fiction influence, as a kid.

opet pod utjecajem znanstvene fantastike iz djetinjstva.

And I wound up getting involved with

Uključio sam se u

the space community,

svemirsku zajednicu,

really involved with NASA,

u rad s NASA-om,

sitting on the NASA advisory board,

sjedio u savjetničkom odboru NASA-e,

planning actual space missions,

planirao prave svemirske misije,

going to Russia, going through the pre-cosmonaut

putovao u Rusiju, išao na

biomedical protocols,

medicinske provjere prije leta u svemir,

and all these sorts of things,

i tomu slično,

to actually go and fly to the international space station

da bi stvarno išao i letio na internacionalnu svemirsku postaju

with our 3D camera systems.

s našim sustavima trodimenzionalnih kamera.

And this was fascinating.

To je bilo fascinantno.

But what I wound up doing was bringing space scientists

No na kraju sam dovodio znanstvenike

with us into the deep.

k nama u dubinu.

And taking them down so that they had access --

I vodio ih dolje gdje su imali dostup

astrobiologists, planetary scientists,

astrobiologe, planetologe,

people who were interested in these extreme environments --

ljude koji su bili zainteresirani za ta ekstremna okruženja,

taking them down to the vents, and letting them see,

vodio ih dolje do otvora, i davao im da vide,

and take samples and test instruments, and so on.

da uzimaju uzorke i testiraju instrumente, i tako dalje.

So, here we were making documentary films,

Stvarali smo dokumentarne filmove,

but actually doing science,

no zapravo smo se bavili znanošću,

and actually doing space science.

zapravo znanošću o svemiru.

I'd completely closed the loop

U potpunosti sam zatvorio krug

between being the science fiction fan,

između bavljenja znanstvenom fantastikom

you know, as a kid,

kao dijete,

and doing this stuff for real.

i bavljenja time za stvarno.

And you know, along the way in this journey

I za vrijeme tog putovanja

of discovery,

otkrića,

I learned a lot.

puno sam naučio.

I learned a lot about science. But I also learned a lot

Naučio sam puno o znanosti. No također sam naučio puno

about leadership.

o vodstvu.

Now you think director has got to be a leader,

Sad mislite da režiser mora biti vođa,

leader of, captain of the ship, and all that sort of thing.

vođa, kapetan broda, i tomu slično.

I didn't really learn about leadership

Nisam zapravo učio o vodstvu

until I did these expeditions.

dok nisam otišao na te ekspedicije.

Because I had to, at a certain point, say,

Zato što sam morao, u određenom trenutku, reći,

"What am I doing out here?

"Što ja radim ovdje?

Why am I doing this? What do I get out of it?"

Zašto to radim? Što imam od toga?"

We don't make money at these damn shows.

Ne zarađujemo novac od tih prokletih filmova.

We barely break even. There is no fame in it.

Jedva nam se isplatilo. Od toga nema slave.

People sort of think I went away

Ljudi su mislili da sam otišao

between "Titanic" and "Avatar" and was buffing my nails

između "Titanika" i "Avatara" i da negdje rašpam nokte,

someplace, sitting at the beach.

sjedeći na plaži.

Made all these films, made all these documentary films

Napravio sam sve te filmove, sve te dokumentarne filmove

for a very limited audience.

za ograničenu publiku.

No fame, no glory, no money. What are you doing?

Nema slave, ugleda, novca. Što to radiš?

You're doing it for the task itself,

Radiš zbog samog posla,

for the challenge --

zbog izazova --

and the ocean is the most challenging environment there is --

i ocean je najizazovnije okruženje koje postoji,

for the thrill of discovery,

zbog uzbuđenja otkrića,

and for that strange bond that happens

i zbog te neobične veze koja se dogodi

when a small group of people form a tightly knit team.

kad mala grupa ljudi stvori tijesno povezan tim.

Because we would do these things with 10, 12 people,

Zato što bismo radili te stvari sa 10-12 ljudi

working for years at a time,

radeći nekoliko godina zaredom.

sometimes at sea for two, three months at a time.

Ponekad na moru 2-3 mjeseca zaredom.

And in that bond, you realize

I u toj vezi shvatite

that the most important thing

da je najvažnija stvar

is the respect that you have for them

vaše poštovanje prema njima

and that they have for you, that you've done a task

i njihovo prema vama, da ste obavili posao

that you can't explain to someone else.

koji ne možete nikome drugome objasniti.

When you come back to the shore and you say,

Kad dođete nazad na obalu i kažete,

"We had to do this, and the fiber optic, and the attentuation,

"Moramo napraviti ovo, i optičko vlakno, i atentuaciju,

and the this and the that,

i ovo i ono,

all the technology of it, and the difficulty,

svu tehnologiju, teškoće,

the human-performance aspects of working at sea,"

aspekte ljudskog djelovanja u radu na moru,

you can't explain it to people. It's that thing that

ne možete objasniti ljudima. To je nešto

maybe cops have, or people in combat that have gone through something together

što možda imaju policajci, ili ljudi u borbi koji su prošli nešto zajedno

and they know they can never explain it.

i koji znaju da to nikad neće moći objasniti.

Creates a bond, creates a bond of respect.

Stvara se veza, veza zasnovana na poštovanju.

So, when I came back to make my next movie,

Kad sam se vratio da snimim sljedeći film,

which was "Avatar,"

to je bio "Avatar",

I tried to apply that same principle of leadership,

pokušao sam primijeniti iste principe vodstva

which is that you respect your team,

a to je da poštujete svoj tim,

and you earn their respect in return.

i da zaslužite njihovo poštovanje zauzvrat.

And it really changed the dynamic.

I to je doista promijenilo dinamiku.

So, here I was again with a small team,

I evo me opet s malim timom,

in uncharted territory,

na nepoznatom teritoriju

doing "Avatar," coming up with new technology

radim "Avatar", stvaram novu tehnologiju

that didn't exist before.

koja prije nije postojala.

Tremendously exciting.

Strahovito uzbudljivo.

Tremendously challenging.

Strahovito izazovno.

And we became a family, over a four-and-half year period.

Postali smo obitelj, u razdoblju od četiri i pol godine.

And it completely changed how I do movies.

To je u potpunosti promijenilo način na koji radim filmove.

So, people have commented on how, "Well, you know,

Ljudi su komentirali kako ste

you brought back the ocean organisms

donijeli nazad organizme iz oceana

and put them on the planet of Pandora."

i stavili ih na planet Pandoru.

To me, it was more of a fundamental way of doing business,

Za mene je to bilo više od osnovnog načina poslovanja,

the process itself, that changed as a result of that.

sam proces koji se promijenio kao rezultat toga.

So, what can we synthesize out of all this?

Dakle, što možemo zaključiti iz svega toga?

You know, what are the lessons learned?

Koje smo lekcije naučili?

Well, I think number one is

Mislim da je broj jedan

curiosity.

znatiželja.

It's the most powerful thing you own.

To je najmoćnija stvar koju imate.

Imagination is a force

Mašta je snaga

that can actually manifest a reality.

koja može doista manifestirati stvarnost.

And the respect of your team

I poštovanje vašeg tima je

is more important than all the

važnije od svih

laurels in the world.

lovorika na svijetu.

I have young filmmakers

Mladi filmaši

come up to me and say, "Give me some advice for doing this."

mi prilaze i govore, "Dajte mi savjet kako da ovo napravim."

And I say, "Don't put limitations on yourself.

I ja kažem, "Ne ograničavaj se.

Other people will do that for you -- don't do it to yourself,

Drugi ljudi će to raditi za tebe, nemoj si to sam raditi,

don't bet against yourself,

nemoj raditi protiv sebe.

and take risks."

I riskiraj."

NASA has this phrase that they like:

NASA ima izraz koji vole:

"Failure is not an option."

"Neuspjeh nije opcija."

But failure has to be an option

No neuspjeh mora biti opcija

in art and in exploration, because it's a leap of faith.

u umjetnosti i istraživanju, zato što je to put u neizvjesnost.

And no important endeavor

I nijedno važno nastojanje

that required innovation

koje zahtijeva inovaciju

was done without risk.

nije napravljeno bez rizika.

You have to be willing to take those risks.

Morate biti spremni riskirati.

So, that's the thought I would leave you with,

To je misao s kojom bih vas ostavio,

is that in whatever you're doing,

štogod radite,

failure is an option,

neuspjeh je opcija,

but fear is not. Thank you.

no strah nije. Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)