So when you're shooting live action, you've got to get that great performance and you've got to stamp the entire image with all the lighting and all the production design and all the extras and all the other stuff onto that sensor or that piece of film complete, more or less, right?

Camera moves and everything else.

Well, the attraction for me with performance

capture is I do all that later. The actors aren't even around. They're on another movie. Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, Jake Sully, Natiri, and their family must deal with adversaries

both old and new, and director James Cameron's science fiction epic, Avatar, Fire and Ash.

The third installment of the Avatar franchise continues the story of Jake and Natery's

family unit as they encounter a new, aggressive Navi tribe, the Ash people,

led by the fiery Varang.

When Varang forms an alliance with Jake's nemesis, Colonel Corrich, the conflict on Pandora escalates,

and a new moral focus emerges.

In addition to Avatar, Fire, and Ash, Cameron's other directorial credits include Avatar,

The Way of Water, The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2 Judgment Day, and True Lies,

as well as the documentary features Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep.

He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

for his 2009 film, Avatar, and won in the same category for his 1997 film, Titanic.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Cameron spoke with director Guillermo del Toro about filming Avatar Fire and Ash.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

You can take your 3D glasses off now.

Well, thank you.

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