James Cameron on "Terminator 2", "Titanic" and "Aliens" 

Just by hearing Cameron you can see the kind of mind that wrote and made Aliens and Terminator, he understand the audience and has the finest taste for the emocional and monumental experience that cinema must provide.

Hands down my fav director of all, from the terminator 1&2 or the terrifying aliens. ( one of the only Movies as a kid I had nightmares from) true lies titanic to avatar. All great in my opinion and versatile

James Cameron is a master at what he does!

James Cameron shows, in this interview, that he has a keen intellect, he is a studious observer of his audience, and he continually applies a rational and consistent thought process to his decisions. It makes sense that all other directors who tried to continue the franchises he began failed miserably. He may not make "arthouse Oscar bait" but I can't think of a single film he made which wasn't extremely successful.

Jim Cameron - a legend

I love him, he's so magical and he's the best realisator.

Battle Angel yeah! Only Cameron has the brains, passion and emotional sensitivity to make that movie a hit. He's never made a movie I didn't like.

I`m not a huge fan of Cameron`s promoting 3D adventures. But apart from that, his movies and skills as a filmmaker are INCREDIBLE. I never saw a movie from him, that didn`t appeal to me, it always did, and always will. A real Talent at work, and I am very glad he is in Movies. Bless the Man.

I felt Titanic was his last great movie. I enjoyed Avatar... but the story and acting was lacking and it focused too much on the CGI (which was amazing) and the message.

my favorite director ...love Aliens and Sigourney Weaver just perfect ...grrrrr.... Titanic kate leonardo... terminator 2 amazing ... Avatar wow wow ... this guy is a God ...

Aliens... Seriously, one of the BEST movies every made.

I went to see ALIENS EXPO , which was first time all ALIENS cast got together after 30 years. Paxton said that he was told when James was writing Terminator and Aliens (etc) in his garage.. He would eat sweet/sour candy when doing Aliens and savoury chips and food when writing Terminator.

I know Cameron is enjoying this moment of great digital effects BUT Aliens was his best movie and has NONE of digital effects and that movie hasn´t dated a day.

cool interview, thanks for posting

Terminator 2 is THE greatest action movie of all time .....the man might be a dictator, but he’s also a genius

I can see how he succeeded alot of passion and great story telling won the fans over forever Michael J and Cameron fan ;)

my inspiration

Despite some of the effects being aged, the original Terminator remains a much tighter and focused film than T2. The Cyberdyne subplot initially meant to be a part of T1 too makes the antagonist in T2 disappear completely for like a fully 30+ minutes plus, which never once remotely happend in the original. It seems to be in general that working around constraints is actually one of Cameron's biggest strenghts, as his movies alongside to rising budgets went more bloated. Maybe something he picked up from working at Roger Corman's studio, the king of budget restraints. I mean, even the liquid metal terminator -- he was brilliantly portrayed by Robert Patrick. But the focus on the struggle of a vulnerable human against a seemingly unstoppable machine is a dramatically more interesting one than the machine vs machine clash in T2. Plus, to this day nothing conveys the Terminator's terror as a force better than the badly damaged T-800 at the end of T1, barely able to walk, his skin smelling of of burn, rot and decay -- but still carrying on with his mission until he's finally truly terminated, fucker. The more any sequel tried to infuse the Terminators with even more advanced tech and gadget in a bid to top what's come before -- the more they feel like the generic kind of action you get from any kind of over the top super hero movie these days.

My favorite part of this interview is when he loudly catches his breath between every sentence.

Dammit Cameron why did you have to enslave yourself to 3 more consecutive Avatars?

that microphone picks up breathing really well.

Aliens was legend because there wasn't major cgi used if any. If aliens were remade with full cgi it would be awful and would never honor it's original.

great interview though, characters really are the key to an engaging movie, though I think Cameron made better movies when he didn't limit himself with a rating and pushed boundaries.

Music comes out of nowhere, watch your ears!

Can we have 3 hours of James sucking in after every single sentence.

What happened to the rest of the questions?

He says how Terminator 3 was all about money and not about story but he also once said he thought T3 was great..?

i honestly think he is from the future to make some money

Jim you should have stayed in the R-rating

who?

Has anyone ever met him in person? Is it true he has a bad attitude?

Bull only to support Arnold

this video is giving me hyperventilation