James Cameron

James Cameron is born in Kapuskasingon August 16, 1954, but grew up in Chippawa, just outside Niagara Falls. When he was fifteen he saw Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and decided that he wanted to be a filmmaker. So he picked up his father's Super-8 camera and began shooting film. When he was in his teens, his family moved to California, but since he didn't have a driver's lisence, Hollywood was far away. He was certified as a scuba diver when he was sixteen in a swimming pool in Buffalo, and dived in the local rivers and lakes. He wanted to be a marine biologist or physicist and enrolled in junior college and studied physics. Even though he made good grades, he knew that this was not what he wanted with his life, so he studied literature for a while.He couldn't make up his mind what he wanted to do, so he simply dropped out. He worked in a machine shop for a while, then as a truck driver, a school bus driver, and painted pictures and wrote stories at night.

Titanic was a hard movie to make and the costs went sky high. James Cameron was down at the actual wreck 12 times and built up almost the entire ship in a tank in Mexico. Somebody also put poison in the food so almost the entire crew got sick. Pushing down Waterworld from the throne as the most expensive movie of all time, James Cameron kept up the tradition with making a movie that costed 200 million dollars. It became the most seen movie in the whole world and received 11 Oscars, just as much as Ben Hur, which held the record till James Cameron made his masterpiece.

Biography was taken from: James Cameron's Universe

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