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《泰坦尼克號》《真实的谎言》《终结者2》《异形2 》《终结者I》《食人鱼2：繁殖》
In 1981 a young Canadian filmmaker got his first big break when he was asked to direct a cheap horror movie that featured ferocious flesh-eating fish. That’s James Cameron.
Personable and friendly， he was the antithesis of the reputation he has earned over the years as an obsessive perfectionist willing to push his cast and crew to unreasonable extremes.
Yet he admits he is not afraid to pull punches.“I’m not in this to phone it in and do mediocre work，” he said. In a sign of how he runs a set， there is a baseball cap in his office with the letters HMFIC on it.
“He’s a perfectionist who knows every single part of movie-making process，” says Arnold Schwarzenegger. He first worked with Cameron on Terminator. He originally wanted the role of Kyle Reese， the film’s human hero， rather than the cyborg killer， but was convinced by Cameron to switch parts. He worked with Cameron on three films and considers him a good friend. “He’s a driven guy， a disciplined guy，” he says. “He blows up sometimes on the set and can be very demanding. But that is because he knows exactly what he needs and will fight for it until he gets it.”
The director was born in Canada and spent his early years in a town close to Niagara Falls. At 17 his family moved to southern California. There， Cameron decided to deviate from the path his father， an engineer， had set out for him. He dropped out of junior college and found jobs as a machinist and then a truck driver. “I just became this blue-collar guy，” he said. “But I was constantly thinking as an artist， so I’m painting， drawing， writing， thinking about visual effects and filmmaking.”
He spent time at the University of Southern California library， where he read books about the technical aspects of filmmaking. After making a short film with two friends he landed a job working for Roger Corman， the B-movie king.
If Corman taught him the basics， he has Stanley Kubrick to thank for sparking his interest in filmmaking. Seeing 2001： A Space Odyssey at the age of 14 had a profound effect on him and left him dreaming about making science fiction films. But he has not limited himself to science fiction： Titanic was a historical love story written off by experts and reviewers who had to eat their words when it broke box office records.
Perhaps more than any other working Hollywood director， his films push the technological boundaries of cinema. Avatar was shot using a new generation of cameras and computer technology pioneered by Cameron and his team.He has always been fascinated by science and technology. Whether it’s someone at NASA， or Panasonic or Sony， he’s not talking to the chief executive. He’s talking to the guys in the lab coats and they are speaking the same language.
《泰坦尼克號》《真实的谎言》《终结者2》《异形2 》《终结者I》《食人鱼2：繁殖》
In 1981 a young Canadian filmmaker got his first big break when he was asked to direct a cheap horror movie that featured ferocious flesh-eating fish. That’s James Cameron.
Personable and friendly， he was the antithesis of the reputation he has earned over the years as an obsessive perfectionist willing to push his cast and crew to unreasonable extremes.
Yet he admits he is not afraid to pull punches.“I’m not in this to phone it in and do mediocre work，” he said. In a sign of how he runs a set， there is a baseball cap in his office with the letters HMFIC on it.
“He’s a perfectionist who knows every single part of movie-making process，” says Arnold Schwarzenegger. He first worked with Cameron on Terminator. He originally wanted the role of Kyle Reese， the film’s human hero， rather than the cyborg killer， but was convinced by Cameron to switch parts. He worked with Cameron on three films and considers him a good friend. “He’s a driven guy， a disciplined guy，” he says. “He blows up sometimes on the set and can be very demanding. But that is because he knows exactly what he needs and will fight for it until he gets it.”
The director was born in Canada and spent his early years in a town close to Niagara Falls. At 17 his family moved to southern California. There， Cameron decided to deviate from the path his father， an engineer， had set out for him. He dropped out of junior college and found jobs as a machinist and then a truck driver. “I just became this blue-collar guy，” he said. “But I was constantly thinking as an artist， so I’m painting， drawing， writing， thinking about visual effects and filmmaking.”
He spent time at the University of Southern California library， where he read books about the technical aspects of filmmaking. After making a short film with two friends he landed a job working for Roger Corman， the B-movie king.
If Corman taught him the basics， he has Stanley Kubrick to thank for sparking his interest in filmmaking. Seeing 2001： A Space Odyssey at the age of 14 had a profound effect on him and left him dreaming about making science fiction films. But he has not limited himself to science fiction： Titanic was a historical love story written off by experts and reviewers who had to eat their words when it broke box office records.
Perhaps more than any other working Hollywood director， his films push the technological boundaries of cinema. Avatar was shot using a new generation of cameras and computer technology pioneered by Cameron and his team.He has always been fascinated by science and technology. Whether it’s someone at NASA， or Panasonic or Sony， he’s not talking to the chief executive. He’s talking to the guys in the lab coats and they are speaking the same language.