James Cameron (1954)

James Cameron
General Information
Birth Name	James Francis Cameron
Gender	Male
Birth Place	Kapuskasing, Ontario
Birth Date	August 16, 1954
Occupation	Actor, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Explorer, Philanthropist, Producer, Writer
Years Active	1975–present

Filmography

Director

• Xenogenesis (1978)
• Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Aliens (1986)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Terminator 2 (1991)
• True Lies (1994)
• T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
• Titanic (1997)
• Earthship.TV (2001)
• Dark Angel (2002) 1 episode
• Expedition: Bismarck (2002)
• Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
• Aliens of the Deep (2005)
• Avatar (2009)
• Toruk: The First Flight (2016)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Producer

• Xenogenesis (1978)
• Terminator 2 (1991)
• Point Break (1991)
• True Lies (1994)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Titanic (1997)
• Dark Angel (2000-02)
• Solaris (2002)
• Expedition: Bismarck (2002)
• Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
• Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (2003)
• Aliens of the Deep (2005)
• Last Mysteries of the Titanic (2005)
• Titanic Adventure (2005)
• The Exodus Decoded (2006)
• The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007)
• Avatar (2009)
• Sanctum (2011)
• Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012)
• Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
• Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014)
• Years of Living Dangerously (2014-16)
• Beyond Glory (2015)
• Toruk: The First Flight (2016)
• Atlantis Rising (2017)
• What Would the Ocean Say? (2017)
• Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron (2017)
• The Game Changers (2018)
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
• Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
• Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Trivia

• One of the founders of visual effects company Digital Domain.
• While editing Titanic (1997), Cameron had a razor blade taped to the side of the editing computer with the instructions written underneath: "Use only if film sucks!".
• Wrote a screenplay for Spider-Man (2002), but was turned down by the studios, due to the fact that his version of Spider-Man was "too violent". Sam Raimi's version got the green light instead.
• Has developed a new generation stereo imaging camera called "The Fusion Camera".
• After seeing Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry.
• Insists that any actor in his films must audition for him, even major stars.
• Is vegan.
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 18, 2009.

Quotes

• People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
• A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
• The key to a sequel is to meet audience expectation and yet be surprising.
• I don't have a TV. I took it out of the house. I was watching too much TV, so I took it out.