I’m a Martial Arts freak and have been dying to figure out a way that I can make a Martial Arts movie: something really significant, something different.

Up ‘til now I’ve made only the movies that were based on my ideas, everything was from me, in a room, I close the doors, write, create everything, and then make those movies. And this was the first time that I directed a movie whose idea was from someone else. I was lucky enough to write the screenplay, which I got to make it my own and tweak it in the ways that I could tell the story the best.

It’s a world where there are four nations, and each of the nations has control over one element: fire, earth, water, air. And they’ve been living in harmony and at the center of this there is an individual, in every generation there is one individual, who can master all the four elements and he’s call the Avatar’ and he keeps the balance. In this movie, this person disappears and the world goes out of balance, and the nation that’s fire nation invades all the other nations, and when this person returns, and he’s a child, the world has gone upside down and one of the nations has been wiped out, and the movies about him trying to deal with the guilt of his absence and trying to fix this before it’s too late.

The term ‘bending’ in out movie refers to the ability to manipulate an element. So, if you’re in the water nation, you’re in the water tribe, some of the people, not everybody, like one in ten has the ability to bend water and the manipulate water to varying degrees of skill levels. But the hope is that when you’re done watching this movie you will look at yourself and think: which element am I and what would it be like to manipulate that element?