18 interesting facts about James Cameron
- James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor.
- James Cameron and his brother Mike earned 5 patents from the equipment that they designed to film under water for the movie "The Abyss".
- His writing and directing work include The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009).
- James appeared in an uncredited role in his movie "Titanic".
- James Cameron wrote and directed the short film "Xeogenesis", when he was a film student.
- James was the co-creator of the series Dark Angel. The only episode of the show that he directed was "Freak Nation", at the time is was shot it was not know that it would be the series finale.
- In 2007 James Cameron was ranked #3 on Entertainment Weekly's list of "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood".
- In "Terminator 2" The screams you hear from the dying T-1000 actually belong to James.
- James's dog, Wolfie, a German Shepherd, was in "The Terminator" in the scene at the hotel. The name of the dog was also in "Terminator 2" as the 'test' name used when the Terminator called John's parents.
- Star Wars (1977) inspired him to become a director.
- James Cameron has invented a new generation stereo imaging camera named The Fusion Camera.
- James Cameron is a big fan of Japanese anime
- Aside from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the films which influenced James Cameron as a young person were Woodstock, Catch-22, Easy Rider, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather.
- James is the first to direct both a $100-million and a $200-million movie with
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Titanic respectively.
- As a teen, he used to create his own comic books. This talent in drawing helped him later in his filmmaking career on coming up with storyboards. He also filmed 16mm home movies just for fun.
- James Cameron is 6'2" (1.88m.) tall.
- James's movie Titanic won eleven Oscar Awards and was nominated for another 3. It grossed 1.2 billion dollars, worldwide, at the box-office.
