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  James Cameron

Born As: James Cameron
Nick Name: Jim Cameron
Sex: Male
Nationality: CA - Canada
Date of Birth: August 16, 1954
Place of Birth: Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada

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Quotes:
  • A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
  • What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death? - on Sigourney Weaver's worry about Guns in Aliens
  • I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
  • I love it when I have a nightmare â€" to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours.

James Cameron Trivia
  • Jokingly refers to Titanic (1997) as his 190 Million Dollar "Chick Flick".
  • His practice of testing his DPs by darkening the film originated on Aliens (1986). Cameron wanted to use a particular type of film stock, but cinematographer Dick Bush ignored him and used a different type. The end result being that the footage shot ended up being unusably dark. After Bush was fired due to an unrelated incident and Adrian Biddle took over, Cameron found some of the film in a storage cupboard and had the camera operators use it instead of the film Biddle had told them to use. Biddle noticed what was going on after the first take, and compensated with extra lighting, hoping to hide his "mistake" from Cameron, who owned up at the end of the day. Cameron later did the same to Mikael Salomon on The Abyss (1989) and to Russell Carpenter on True Lies (1994).
  • Has a stepson named Jasper, from Suzy Amis' marriage to Sam Robards.
  • He has written a script for a film called Avatar. The script is 85 pages long and tells the story of Josh, a man who agrees of becoming a 'controller' on a distant planet populated by an alien race. However, the huge budget of $350 million grounded the project and it has yet to be produced (it would have boasted a photo-realistic CGI cast). This was one off the scripts on Empire Magazine's "Twelve Greatest Unproduced Scripts In Hollywood" list.
  • Got the nickname "Iron Jim" because of his stern, stubborn ways as a director.

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