Before Titanic came out, people said it was going to sink. Before Avatar came out, people said it was just a cartoon. Before The Way of Water came out, people said no one was interested. And now.... "Say My Name." - James Cameron.

James Cameron one of the best directors in the industry today, because he doesn’t compromise his artistic vision for any studio, he makes the movies he wants to make and the end result are amazing movies, Avatar and Avatar The Way of Water, Aliens are prime examples of this 👏👏👏👏

I could hear James Cameron speak about his films for two hours. A modern day creative genius who writes, directs, draws and produces.

Mr. Cameron seems to be a very smart and yet down to Earth guy. Awesome, he's also getting so much success.

The best part of Avatar, both movies, is that storywise, Cameron doesn't overdo anything. At it's heart, it's very straightforward storytelling and not convoluted at all. I think a lot of filmmakers try to overdo the storytelling and they lose themselves along the way. The technology used could be said as over the top but it never stands out over the story being weaved. The movie connects with a wide range of viewers as well. It's a movie all ages can go and enjoy.

Its funny as hell how people (especially some salty Marvel fans ) say this movie is a cgi fest and has no story, when it wipes the floor with literally 90% of all MCU movies in every department of filmmaking.

I have never seen a movie like this getting the best response ever in a country like India, all screens in the entire country were forced by the people to show this incredible masterpiece, the people of India connected to this unbelievably so much so that the entire film industry in India is confused where they were lacking, they suddenly realised an educated India has been punishing their stupid movies since 2 years, people of India are now wiser and more educated thanks to the smartphone revolution and access to reality of our planet 👍❤️❤️

I saw it. It was amazing and so inspiring. I am so happy for james and all the crew and actors! Well done.🙏🌹🔥

I think, at it’s core… it’s a story about a father and mother who equally protect their children. It shows the strength of men and women equally. It isn’t politicizing anything (other than save the environment, but that’s not political). It’s just a fun, action/adventure escapism film. That’s what people want.

The box-office king himself

I can’t wait to see Avatar 2. The first one was a beautiful work of art.

James wasn't joking when he said "I'm the king of the world".. that aged well😂

This guy is a genius, if only the rest of Hollywood could keep up

I can watch this man talk all day. A true master of his craft 🙌

James Cameron. I'm glad he exists and I get to see his work

*Saw Avatar The Way of Water in one of the biggest IMAX theatres in the US in 3D. Was absolutely INCREDIBLE to watch and I have never seen such a beautiful movie technologically speaking. Music was also amazing and really made you feel like you were following along for the ride. Pacing was a little off at times but this is certainly meant to be apart of a much larger franchise.*

I absolutely want to see all 5. By the time 5 comes out it will be 20 years since the first movie - if all goes to plan.

He`s 68 years old , worth hundreds of millions of dollars and still refuses to retire from the movie industry ! As he said in a interview before he doesnt make movies to enrich his life he does it to define his life. Money is s h i t to him. Long after hes gone James Cameron will have his place in cinematic history as a pioneering visionary responsible for bringing new technologies to the movie making world and changing the way on how movies are made. His legacy will last for generations to come !

He makes EPIC movies, 95% of other directors with a $200+ million budget makes average remakes/IP/comic movies.

Cameron is a story telling master, for sure. I did find it interesting though that the acting, on the faces of the actors, is much more compelling than on the avatars. But then again, my observation is coming from a human.

Thanks for sharing your talent with us James. 🌸

Friendships are built on loyalty.

James Cameron is a living legend.

Avatar sequels r set to rule the cinemas n the box office for decades👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

Avatar was worth the wait quality too noch

Jim Cameron is the greatest director ever lived... End of story..

In the third act... "Son for a son" is uttered twice.... The contrast hit home for me...

"I'm a story teller" oh yes. And Avatar 2 was amazing.

Ohhhh man!!! You just watch this movie in the hall. It's totally satisfying and looks so real.

Jim is both an Artist and a Scientist. Love Him Love his Work🔥💯

Thanks for sharing

V love u sir Cameron n long live lord Cameron👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

What an incredible time to be James Cameron.

I haven't seen it yet but I heard people say it's pretty good I got to check it out🤔

Cameron has made some truly leading edge films. I have loved them at every innovative step.

Please keep entertaining the world with ur masterpieces💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

I think we can all agree that this movie didn't have that once in a century hype that the first one had. Still a good movie. 👍

Here's the thing about James Cameron. This guy could live to be 150 years old still making films. From here on out, every one of his future films could suck. But James Cameron will always have my love and respect because he directed/wrote/produced or was involved with some of the most iconic films in cinematic history. Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens, The Abyss, Strange Days, Escape from New York, Rambo II and yes, the original Avatar. Aliens is particularly noteworthy because Ridley Scott changed the industry with Alien. Truly groundbreaking during an era when we had Star Wars, Blade Runner (also Ridley Scott) and the original Conan. James Cameron actually made Aliens better than the original. Not usually the case with a sequel. Yeah, I guess you can say I'm a fan of James Cameron's work.

Dump as much money as possible into visuals, then stick with an extreme average plot. It was basically a better looking version of the first movie but I liked the first better. It's like a 6 but the visuals make people think it's a 9 (if you see in Dolby 3d)

I really love this director ❤

I fuck with how he TROLLED all those people by flipping them off. 😂😂😂

Coincidence I just realized while watching this interview....Avatar 2(US) and Kantaara(India)...both movies have similar theme of "Man vs Nature" and very popular.

This man s a magician n he always deliver gold at box office👄💓💓💓💓💓💓

Our planet is on the brink... The great barrier reef is being destroyed, polar bears are on the brink of extinction etc. Avatar highlights the message that we need to look after these habitats.

Interesting interview

Yeah, that's all great, Jim... But what're you going to do about the flatlining Alien and Terminator franchises going forward?

James looks better now than he did 13 years ago

I watched this fascinating interview on Who is talking to Chris Wallace.I am a big fan of James Cameron. But I have a bit of feeling of hypocrisy when he comments on where humanity is headed. I think Cameron’s films, as amazing as they are, are extremely computationally intensive, and are actually contributing to the problem he purports to address.

Really glad i saw this at a dolby 3d cinema. The audio and visual quality is astonishing. Cool movie too :)

More than a decade has passed and it is time for a new counting of money. That is the essence of this film

story-wise Avatar 2 is too similar to Avatar, both movies are basically still act one of the entire story arc. but the visuals are definitely stunning. James Cameron is a cinematic scientist. also, kudos to the actors for being able to act and convey emotional responses opposite one another wearing mocap contraptions. wearing prosthetics has become second nature, second skin, but staring at someone that has dots on the face and a go-pro looking device sticking out... man, i'd want to see the blooper reel.

Amazing film and shouldn't be missed

Avatar 2 may still fall short, but it's still a gem in the movie industry. :) That cannot be disputed. If anyone tries, be my guest and write an essay. :D

It has collected 1.9 billion now! Seems it won't have any problem to ‘break even’!

👍 I have watched this film. It is really gorgeous and makes me interested.

James Cameron is a great director and story teller! Good if Cameron practice true "Diversity"! Having lived in CA, he knows the role Indians and Asians play, but so far I have not seen them even among bad guys side tech

Can we expect upcoming movies from director other than Avatar zone in different concept new journer for a change as this could have been a long journey in making Avatar so director needs a small vacation before he goes back to next sequel

The man is an absolute genius

1.7 Billion

Lol..Chris Wallace..Im glad they are giving him "Important" interviews.

The Abyss deserve a sequel..

Bravo, Mr. Cameron. Bravo! 👏👏👏

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The master

Did he just call him Jim? 😭😭😭

Whose that? It’s him!! James Cam-er-on

James Cameron is a gifted artist.

I love this movie

I usually watch Fox News all the way, but for Jim Cameron I'll make it an exception.

The filmmaking technique was awesome, they forgot all about the story. What a bummer. Makes me fell like GOT S8

in 8 years im moving to Washington im going to the place of the Lake its Like Avatar I can't wait to have Lots of Fun bur I can't swim

First of all, congratulations. I saw the movie last week. It is an astonishing piece of art and technical wizardry. Thank you. That's very. That's very kind. Yeah. People seem to be connecting with it, which is all we could have hoped for. 13 years after the first avatar and five years after starting production on this one. How do you feel about what you're now sharing with the world, Jim? Are you satisfied with it? Yeah. I was satisfied before we put it out. But that doesn't necessarily mean that people people are going to be interested. You never know. I mean, it's just the nature of our our business. That you never really know until you put something out there in the zeitgeist if people are going to respond. But it it seems to be the right film at the right time. And I don't know if that's that sense of childlike wonder that can engender in an audience. Or maybe it's the emotional processing that they go through when they watch it. Almost everybody that sees it tells me that they they cry or they tear up at some point. So I think it's working on on multiple levels. So that's very satisfying. I mean, I'm just sort of reeling from the fact that I'm unemployed for the first time in five years. Let's talk about that for a minute. You know, you've obviously had an extraordinary history of successes, but as you say, nobody knows. We are nervous when finally you had to share this with the world. Yeah, very. I think you're all I think any filmmaker that says they're not nervous before their film drops is is you know, lying or or, you know, in denial. Yeah. You of course you're nervous. You know, the zeitgeist changes, people's tastes change. We're in a. Coming out of a COVID era, but we're still not at full strength in the, you know, theatrical community. We're only running at about maybe 65 to 75% of what we used to be. So we're trying to build that back. Yeah. So there's there were a lot of variables, a lot of factors that made it quite daunting You say this avatar is more emotional than the first one. And part of that is that you have given Sully and Neytiri a sprawling family of children. Why did you decide to go that route? Well, I think it's a couple of things. I mean, one, you know, they say write what you know. And as a as a family man, as a father of five, this is something that I'd never really dealt with that I wanted to deal with. I also wanted something that would have a universal appeal for people in any culture or language or religion around the world, because the Avatar audience is a global audience, which we're seeing again on on this release. And I just I wanted the characters to have stakes, like real stakes. I wanted to deal with with as much as the beauty and wonder. On the one hand, I also wanted to do with something, deal with something deeper, you know, which is like grief and loss and how we process these deep bonds between between each other. One of the ways that you show that emotion is through a filmmaking technique called performance capture. And let's take a look at some of that. It's fascinating You are very hard on I'm the father. It's my job. What is this stunt story? Oh, yes. I'll be nice once and then I won't. I know one thing this family is our fortress. How much harder is that, Jim, than straight CGI Computer-generated imagery? And is it this performance capture? Is it worth all of the extra time and expense? Well, that's really the big question. I mean, I can talk for hours about how we do it, but we rarely talk about why we do it. One of the big upsides of it is that I take all of my cinematography ideas and I postpone them into a kind of a post-production. So what I'm doing with the actors is not photography, it's not cinematography. We're not doing dolly shots and crane shots and all that. I'm just working with the actors. It's a very pure art form. It's almost like a theatrical, like a rehearsal for a stage play. So as a as a director, I'm not distracted by all that other stuff. I'm just focusing on character. So I quite like it. I'm not sure that it's necessarily justified if you can. If you could film something with actors, by all means film it. But I can't create these characters any other way. I can't create this world any other way. And there's something about that dreamlike experience that people are having where they're dreaming with their eyes wide open and it looks completely real, but it can't possibly be. That, I think, is a big part of the appeal of these films. Now, when Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are doing a scene together and you've got this camera right in their face, are they doing the scene together or is each one do? Absolutely. We work with everybody together as much as possible, and that's critical because when there's no set there and there's no world there. It's all about the actors looking in each other's eyes and getting that sense of that truth and that emotional reality in the scene. So we can capture up to 20 people at a time, which means we can do crowd scenes, we can do group ensemble type scenes, we can do one on one scenes like the ones that you were looking at there. So the important the critical thing is the actors have each other to play too. And and that's what allows them to get to that deep truth of the scene. Even, I think more than the first avatar, you really portray the conflict between nature and Mann's exploitation of natural resources. And here's some of that Protect the people Let's get it done. Your message? Maybe it seems to me is even more dire than it was in the first Avatar 13 years ago. Yeah, well, look, I mean, the world's not. The natural world is not getting better. It's suffering more. And more every day in terms of species extinction. And we're really focusing with this film on the ocean and the creatures of the ocean. The habitat of the ocean. And it's not doing that well on our on our world. And we have to do better. I mean, I don't think the film is preachy, but the message is clear and maybe if people enjoy the film, they go on the ride, they enjoy the action and the emotion of the movie, but they come out thinking, hmm, maybe, maybe we do need to be less destructive and more connected to the natural world. Avatar two has grossed according to the last numbers I saw, about $1.4 billion. It is an enormous hit. But you have said you've set the marker that it needs to make at least $2 billion to break even to justify another one. And that that, I guess, is is the question. I have one. Are you going to make that figure of $2 billion and two if you don't? Does that mean we're not going to see Avatar three? It looks like just with the momentum that the film has now, that will easily pass or break even in the next few days, actually. So. So it looks like I can't wiggle out of this. I'm going to have to do these other these other sequels. So I kind of know what I'm going to be doing for the next six or seven years. And I'm sure that we'll have a discussion soon, you know, with with the top folks at Disney about, you know, the game plan going forward. For Avatar three, which is already in the can. We've already captured and photographed the whole film and then Avatar four and five or are both written we even have some A4 in the can. So, you know, I think we can see that that I think we've begun a franchise at this point. How crushing and I hope and you think it's not going to happen, but how crushing would it be to you personally if you didn't get to tell the entire arc of the Avatar story? Not so bad. I mean, look, I understand this business and I understand the vagaries of it and the variables. And, you know, the old expression you know, man proposes and God disposes. You never quite know what's going to happen. I also believe in planning for the upside, not not sort of just making a movie herky jerky and then waiting to see what happens, but plan for the upside and then accept, except that if it doesn't work. I read somewhere recently that you said, and let me get it right, I don't want to do anything but big swings. What if at some point between now and whenever the economics of the business were to be such that, as you say, we're at 60 or 70% of the pre-pandemic movie going? If the economics of the industry just becomes such that it doesn't allow for big swings like Terminator and Titanic and Avatar, I think it's fine. I mean, I'm a storyteller. I love having a camera on my shoulder. I love hand-holding. I love working with actors. You know, I'll still be able to get a job as a storyteller. People still need their stories and whether that's whether they're being produced strictly for television, for streaming, I can live with that as long as everybody else has to live with it.

We will raise the value to the most. 🆓 Maybe he will decide to give us the Avatar as the newest version of the idea and with the newest technology. 🙏 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Îi vom ridica valoarea la maximum. 🆓 Poate se va hotărî să ne transmită Avatarul ca cea mai nouă versiune a ideie și cu cea mai nouă tehnologie. 🙏

A movie god !

Just like with "The Abyss" , the making of the movie is FAR more interesting than the movie. James need to put his amazing talent toward some better sci-fi. Maybe join the Star Trek or Westworld franchise?

The method used? Take the storyline from the first film and add some water. Visuals were astounding, but the storyline and character arcs awful. Jake is as boring a character as I can think of and Neytiri, the highlight of the first film, was totally castrated of what made her a great draw

What a guy, really hope he gets to tell his story his way in his vision

We need to do better

Right now the movie grossed 1.76 billion Dollars. Let‘s see the numbers after this weekend. Almost 2 billion 4 weeks after its release. Shout out to all the haters who said „this movie is gonna flop hard“ 🖕🏻

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Reached 2.000.000.000 $ 😱

I saw James Cameron flip off fans the other week and here he is acting like a god

James Cameron is easily among my top list of most influential /inspiring director's of all time

I love Avatar movies!!!

This dude went to CNN? That’s like seeing the titanic hit the iceberg then jumping onto it.

Don't worry buddy I love people will be buying a DVD

Oh NOW you care 🙄

Avtar 2 is good fucken good

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Avatar Two and the president went to the border

Jesus Christ this movie was amazing, especially the scenes with the whale.

Underwhelming! Though the artistry is spectacular, the plot , or lack thereof, is not. It’s Way too long, has Way too many plot starts, and is nothing more than an extravagant set up for the next movie. Hopefully Cameron will hear the negatives and make the next movies Work!

slept 2 of the 3 hours of this movie

Lemme guess, he used a camera

the way he says jim makes me cringe a little

I cried several times watching! Masterful! ❤

I saw the first one and I didn’t like it.

BUT according to all the Hollywood elites policy of the last 11 years, Avatar 2 is NOT a real movie. Like all the Marvel movies it's just a money making amusement park ride of CGI special effects and deserves no awards or recognition from the Academy. Just ask Martin Scorsese; it's not a real movie.

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