Hollywood director James Cameron has said that he "had a bit of a crisis of faith" while editing Avatar: The Way Of Water.
The director explained: "I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark.
"You have to have conflict, of course. Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it.
"This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I'm known as an action filmmaker," says the True Lies director.
Speaking to Esquire Middle East, Cameron said that he believes that some of his films may have been too violent: "I look back on some films that I've made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now.
"I don’t know if I would want to fetishise the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago, in our current world. What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach."
"I’m happy to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks after that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago," he adds.
