James Cameron, a writer and director, of The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, Titanic, and Avatar to name a few has dominated the movie industry for the last twenty years.
James Cameron gave a speech on his life and his inspiration on making various movies. As well, he stated his personal interests and love of scuba diving. His speech was very inspiring to hear as personally for me it gives me insight into the making of movies, as I want to represent actors/actresses.
He first started out by explaining how he has always had a passion for reading science fiction books and a curiosity of science. He loved to go hiking and collected snakes, and pod water to take back and analyze it under a microscope. In doing so he was curious to understand about the world and it’s possibilities. As well, James took this passion, and curiosity of robots, aliens, spaceships to draw and paint them –these were the images in his mind and the only way he knew how to express them was to put them on a movie screen.
In the late 1960’s, was a time of exploration, with the moon exploration and the new T.V. show Jacque Cousteau that both inspired James and led to hos passion of scuba diving. James, for the last forty years has spent 3000 hours under water and 500 hours in submersivals admiring and being mesmerized by the amazing life that lives in both deep and shallow waters. He says that this is nature’s imagination and it is boundless compared to the human imagination, which keeps his love affair of the ocean ongoing. Thus, was the ultimate reason he wanted to film the movie Titanic was to experience and do an exhibition to the depths of the actual ship. Therefore, he pitched his story of a love story on a ship of a type of Romeo and Juliet love story. Thus, after the success of the Titanic James went to do documentary type films about science exploration discovery- analyzing various forms of ocean life while he continued his love of scuba diving. As well, it was through this experience’s that led to the making of avatar, and to use a different approach of leadership in directing movies. One should appreciate his philosophy-to never put imitations on oneself as others will tend to do that for you and take risks and don’t think that failure is not an option because it has to be in order for their to be imagination. Finally he says, “Failure is an option, but fear is not.”
In the late 1960’s, was a time of exploration, with the moon exploration and the new T.V. show Jacque Cousteau that both inspired James and led to hos passion of scuba diving. James, for the last forty years has spent 3000 hours under water and 500 hours in submersivals admiring and being mesmerized by the amazing life that lives in both deep and shallow waters. He says that this is nature’s imagination and it is boundless compared to the human imagination, which keeps his love affair of the ocean ongoing. Thus, was the ultimate reason he wanted to film the movie Titanic was to experience and do an exhibition to the depths of the actual ship. Therefore, he pitched his story of a love story on a ship of a type of Romeo and Juliet love story. Thus, after the success of the Titanic James went to do documentary type films about science exploration discovery- analyzing various forms of ocean life while he continued his love of scuba diving. As well, it was through this experience’s that led to the making of avatar, and to use a different approach of leadership in directing movies. One should appreciate his philosophy-to never put imitations on oneself as others will tend to do that for you and take risks and don’t think that failure is not an option because it has to be in order for their to be imagination. Finally he says, “Failure is an option, but fear is not.”
In concluding, James Cameron has inspired me in the entertainment industry as he is not only a very well respected director in Hollywood, but has many hobbies that he brings into his love of movie making. Thus, he brings in his passion and imaginations to life on the big movie screen so that the audience may see this advanced technology and vision. As well, I admire and respect his philosophy about succeeding and adore his curiosity of nature and his amazing imagination.
James Cameron: Before Avatar a curious boy (March, 2010). http://www.ted.com/speakers/james_cameron.html
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