Years after his Titanic tantrums, the “Avatar” director has “mellowed,” says Sigourney Weaver. He calls it “marinating.”

The box office king sits for a lightning-round interview.He has an explanation for his “King of the World” statement.

The actor also stars in the Off Broadway production of “This World of Tomorrow,” a yearslong project at the Shed through Dec. 21.Tom Hanks plays a tech entrepreneur from 2089 who travels back to the 1939 World’s Fair. He said he wanted to explore “lives caught between the certainties of our past and the unknowable future.”

Mr. Greene, who built a four-decade career uncannily portraying villains, was found dead in his apartment in Manhattan on Friday, his manager said.Peter Greene in New York in 2010.

In movies like “Eddington,” “Sinners,” “Wake Up Dead Man” and others, filmmakers have at last wrapped their heads around how to explain this period.