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04 March 2010
Before Avatar … a curious boy: James Cameron on TED.com
James Cameron‘s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic — from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving — and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits “Aliens,” “The Terminator,” “Titanic” and “Avatar.” (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 17:08)
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Peter Jacobs
Mar 12 2010I think James would be the perfect person to realize Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars trilogy” as a film or TV series
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maria zero
In his later teens his family moved to Fullerton, California where he enrolled in Fullerton College. Without direction he decided to drop out and took a job as a truck driver. After seeing Star Wars his interest in film-making was rejuvenated and he hit the libraries again to study the craft.