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Filmmaker James Cameron has explained how relatability fueled his 2009 film “Avatar” and how its sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” tackled problems unlike those seen in superhero movies.

Cameron, whose recent epic has earned an estimated $700 million around the world, told TheWrap Magazine that the problems his characters face in his original hit movies are “not extraordinary” and tied the success of his first film to its relatability across cultures.

“So it was important to me that we tell some kind of story that was universal, so everybody deals with fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brothers and sisters, all of that sort of thing,” Cameron said.

“It doesn’t matter what culture, what language group you’re in, what religion you are. It’s a universal idea.”

Cameron, later in the interview, revealed some topics addressed in the plot of “The Way of Water” including teens attempting to fit into their community and parents seeing their children “in their different ways” as they navigate life.

He added that the problems seen in the movie don’t include “going up against some guy that’s trying to conquer the galaxy.”

“They have real problems. And I’m not dissing superhero movies,” Cameron said.

“I love ’em, they’re our modern myths and legends, they’re the Greek gods fighting. We love all of that stuff, but that’s not the movie I wanted to make.”

The comments aren’t the first time that Cameron, whose 2009 film “Avatar” is the highest-grossing film of all-time ahead of “Avengers: Endgame,” has recently weighed in on superhero movies.

The filmmaker, during an October profile in The New York Times, told the newspaper that he wanted to “do the thing that other people aren’t doing” in their films before referring to DC and Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

“When I look at these big, spectacular films — I’m looking at you, Marvel and DC — it doesn’t matter how old the characters are, they all act like they’re in college,” he said.

“They have relationships, but they really don’t. They never hang up their spurs because of their kids. The things that really ground us and give us power, love, and a purpose? Those characters don’t experience it, and I think that’s not the way to make movies.”

“Avatar” director James Cameron isn’t holding back on how long moviegoers should be holding it in during his three-hour-plus sequel to his 2009 sci-fi epic.

Cameron, whose previous “Avatar” movie is the highest-grossing film of all time, weighed in on the length of his upcoming movie “Avatar: The Way of Water” during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

The legendary filmmaker’s previous “Avatar” movie clocked in at under three hours long, however, its sequel is set to run for three hours and 12 minutes.

The “Avatar” sequel is three minutes shorter than Cameron’s movie “Titanic,” which held the title for highest-grossing movie ever prior to the 2009 film.

Cameron, who said he would “play the epic game” with the sequel, named when he thinks moviegoers should use the bathroom during his new, over $350 million film.

“Any time they want. They can see the scene they missed when they come see it again,” Cameron said.

Cameron has previously weighed in on the length of the film in recent weeks, telling Total Film magazine that “there’s more story to service” in the sequel.

“The goal is to tell an extremely compelling story on an emotional basis,” Cameron said.

Cameron spoke out about moviegoers’ potential complaints about runtime during an interview with Empire magazine and said he didn’t want people “whining” about the sequel’s length due to binge-watching habits.

“I can almost write this part of the review. ‘The agonizingly long three-hour movie…’ It’s like, give me a fucking break,” Cameron said.

“I’ve watched my kids sit and do five one-hour episodes in a row. Here’s the big social paradigm shift that has to happen: it’s okay to get up and go pee.”