If you’re not psyched for James Cameron’s 3-D motion-capture epic AVATAR, after reading what Oceans 11/Che/The Girlfriend Experience director Steven Soderbergh has to say, then…well, you either don’t know about Avatar or you’re crazy…

From Coming Soon:

We were asking why he thought recent films didn’t have quite the impact or longevity as the classics, and he gave us a great response about how the volume of movies being made and seen made it hard for anything to have the cultural impact of a movie like The Godfather or be remembered. He was disappointed there weren’t those sorts of benchmarks in the movies being made today, but he surprised us by adding that he thought James Cameron’s Avatar would be one of those benchmarks:

“I’ve seen some stuff and holy sh*t. It’s the craziest sh*t ever. That could negate everything I just said,” he told us.

Now I have a reason to not die before December!