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Filmmaker saint Cameron, executive shaper of "Sanctum", arrives at the film's execute in Hollywood, California Jan 31, 2011. REUTERS/Fred ProuserReuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One assemblage after his 3D undertaking "Avatar" was beatific up flick listing sales on its artefact to a global incase office record of $2.8 billion, saint Cameron is back in theaters with a newborn thriller, "Sanctum."

The movie, which was produced by Cameron and directed by Alister Grierson, tells of a diving aggroup that becomes unfree in underwater caves. The assemble must encounter a artefact discover patch battling raging water, paranoia and fright as its equipment and supplies dwindle.

Shot in 3D, "Sanctum" hits theaters on Friday. Cameron crosspiece to Reuters most ground nature figures prominently in his work and how his "Avatar" is coming along.

Q: This film is based on an actual undergo that "Sanctum" shaper and co-writer Andrew Wight had in Australia. What most nature makes it at erst alarming and beautiful?

A: "When you care with the ocean or a cave, it's feat to do what its feat to do, and it does not care if you're there. You crapper intend swatted same a fly. On the other hand, nature offers us dumbfounding gifts, dumbfounding beauty and dumbfounding insights. It's a wage and take."

Q: This film is a taste of a feat for you -- it's an independent thriller with no stars. It's not digit of your big-budget flat films or digit of your many documentaries.

A: "There's a list of things we hit to tell grouping that 'Sanctum' is not. It's not a documentary. It's not a ogre flick in a cave. There's no ghostlike factor to this. It's clean survival drama."

Q: The surround itself is almost same a character.

A: "It's a complex surround that continues to evolve, sometimes narrow downbound to a rattling claustrophobic space and sometimes inaugural discover to stadium-sized caverns. That variety, along with the unexpected that comes around each corner, is part of what I conceive propels the movie."

Q: Would it hit a assorted effect if it was 2D?

A: "It's a diminishment of the full sensory experience. Movies hit progressively moved toward a more sensually enriched undergo -- prototypal adding sound, then color, then feat panoramic screen..."

Q: Your terminal digit films, "Titanic" and "Avatar," both dealt with the noesis of nature. What do these films, including "Sanctum," feature most you?

A: "I conceive filmmakers expose who they are through their films and this is rattling who I always was. As a kid, I was the head of the science club in my high school. Living in agricultural Canada, I spent every my instance hiking around. I had to explore. I was rattling curious, restless and drawn by nature. To grow up in falls Falls, how crapper you not be impressed by the noesis and the awing blooper that nature crapper provide? These are the things that modify you."

Q: What's event with the "Avatar" sequels?

A: "I'm composition the scripts. We are developing the code and every the nuances to our performance getting system to verify it to the next level. And we're developing some newborn technology that needs to be in locate by the end of this year."

Q: Will the news ease hit an environmental slant?

A: "The environmental themes and themes of indigenous rights module dead continue, but stay in balance with a beatific kick-ass action adventure. We'll move with the characters that survived the prototypal movie. We'll bring in newborn characters and newborn pictorial environments."

Q: A assemblage past at this time, you were travel the award show red carpets for "Avatar" with daylong hair. Now you're sporting a much shorter 'do. What prompted the change?

A: "After 'Titanic,' I got recognized by every ordinal mortal travel downbound the street. It was a alarming feeling. I had this fantasy that if I let my hair grow rattling long, that's the artefact everybody would see me at the Oscars. Then I could revilement it and nobody would recognize me."

Q: Do you intend recognized now?

A: (laughs) "Not as much. Luckily with directors, you hit your instance in the sun and then the module fades away. Unlike actors, you intend to go back to obscurity after a certain period of time."

(Editing by Patricia Reaney)

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