James Cameron

He usually made movies for like $200,000.

And then all of a sudden, I'm on a movie.

And then the rest just sort of made sense after that.

It's that prepared mind thing.

I had read everything I could possibly read.

I had

I had schooled myself on how visual effects were done, all for no money, all not at university, just over that sort of two or three years that I was driving trucks and working blue-collar jobs.

So I guess in the back of my mind, I must have thought, I'm going to do this for real at some point, because I was clearly preparing myself.

But I had no entree.

I didn't know anybody that knew anybody that knew anybody.

that worked on a film.

Even though I was in Orange County, it's not that far from here, not that far from the center of the film industry, but it might as well have been Montana.

You know, at that time, certainly.

Yeah, sometimes I'll wake up and I'll just write it down, you know, or I'll type it out on my laptop, whatever.

It's sporadic.

I mean, you know, I mean, it's a constant sort of streaming channel that's running all the time, and they're not all necessarily worthy of it.

But every once in a while, I'll get a corker.

It's like, oh, man, I got to write this one down.

You won't believe this.

Look, I've read a lot on the theories of consciousness and dreams and what purpose they serve.