James Cameron

I did talk to Ray later in his life.

He was pretty retired.

He hadn't done any stop motion for some time.

But I shared with him some of these early stories and the impact he had on me and so many other filmmakers.

He was absolutely the most fantastic of the fantasy filmmakers that were out there for many, many years.

I think he was just kind of dazzled by where the next generation and the one after that had sort of taken it into CG and so on and things that he couldn't have imagined the technology, but he certainly could have imagined the design and the storytelling that were possible with those new tools.

Oh, how could he have?

I mean, he was just following his muse, and we all do.

But I'd love to think that stuff that I've done has inspired, I want to say kids, but it could be anybody that wants to be an artist at any age.

And I have this art show that's touring around in Europe.

It's actually in Istanbul right now, and it's a lot of drawings that I did there.

and paintings that i did when i was in high school and in college i didn't know i was going to be a big shot filmmaker someday you know how could you possibly know that you know i was just the ideas in my head i just had to draw them i mean i had to draw them and i always say artists artists are the people that can't not draw or can't not create it's like it's not like you force yourself to create you have to force yourself not to you

And if that's flowing from you, if it's flowing from your fingertips or if it's voice or if it's music or whatever it is, if it's flowing from you and you can't stop it, guess what?

You're stuck.

You're an artist.

Yeah, yeah.

And you don't question it.

That's the crazy thing.

At least I never did.

I'd sit on the quad at college.