James Vand Cameron

James Cameron

• Birth Name James Francis Cameron
• Nickname Iron Jim
  Jim
  
• Biography James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, on August 16, 1954. He moved to the USA in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University but, after graduat...
  
• Spouse Suzy Amis (4 June 2000 - present); 3 children
  Linda Hamilton (I) (26 July 1997 - 1999) (divorced); 1 child
  Kathryn Bigelow (17 August 1989 - 1991) (divorced)
  Gale Anne Hurd (1985 - 1989) (divorced)
  'Sharon Williams' (14 February 1978 - 1984) (divorced)
  
• Trivia (15 February 1993) Daughter, with Hamilton, Josephine Archer Cameronborn.
  Older brother of Mike Cameron (I).
  According to Cameron, he got his big break while doing pick-up shots forGalaxy of Terror (1981) as 2nd unit director. He was shootingscenes of a dismembered arm teeming with maggots (actually mealworm...
  His production company is 'Lightstorm Entertainment'.
  One of the founders of visual effects company 'Digital Domain'.
  While editing Titanic (1997), Cameron had a razor blade taped tothe side of the editing computer with the instructions writtenunderneath: "Use only if film sucks!".
  
• Other Work Directed music video, "Reach," for Martini Ranch, a new-wave group thatfeatured Bill Paxton. This is the only music video that Cameron has everdirected.
  Interviewed in "Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominatedfor Best Film by the Directors Guild of America", ed. by Jeremy Kagan,Scarecrow Press, 2006.
  Article, "Terminator's Real Daddy," Published in "The Guardian," 17 November 2006.
  
• Biography print Richard Rickitt. _Special Effects - The History and Technique._ London: VirginPublishing Ltd, 2000. ISBN 1-85227-800-5
  Paula Parisi. _Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story ofthe Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History._ NewmarketPress, 1998.ISBN 1557043655
  Christopher Heard. _Dreaming Aloud: The Films of James Cameron._ BantamBooks, 1998.ISBN 038525816X
  Karl Schanzer, Thomas Lee Wright. _American Screenwriters._ New York: Avon Books, 1993. ISBN 0380767279
  
• Personal quotes People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I dosomething until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
  ...you can read all the books about film-making, all the articles inAmerican Cinematographer and that sort of thing, but you have to reallysee how it works on a day-to-day basis, and how to pace your ...
  I was petrified at the start of Terminator. First of all, I was workingwith a star, at least I thought of him as a star at the time. Arnoldcame out of it even more a star.
  I went from driving a truck to becoming a movie director, with a littletime working with Roger Corman in between. When I wrote The Terminator,I sold the rights at that time - that was my shot to get t...
  Well, I see our potential destruction and the potential salvation ashuman beings coming from technology and how we use it, how we master itand how we prevent it from mastering us. Titanic was as much ...
  A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen byitself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell themwhat needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an...
  
• Portrayed in See Arnold Run (2005) (TV)
  
• Salary Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): $6,000,000.00
  
• Pictorial "Spits" (Netherlands), 17 December 2009, "Avatar"
  
• Filmography

  Avatar 2 (2014) Sci-Fi

  Fantastic Voyage (2013) Sci-Fi

  Forbidden Planet (2013) Sci-Fi

  The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (2013) History

  Heavy Metal (2012) Sci-Fi

  Nagasaki Deadline (2012) Thriller

  Terminator 5 (2012) Sci-Fi

  The Dive (2012) Drama

  Titanic (1997) Romance

  Battle Angel (2011) Sci-Fi