James Cameron
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it had to deliver on those artistic principles that we went in with.
I knew I had a great cast.
I had great performances.
And it turned out from the moment James Horner played the first – he wrote three themes and just reiterated them throughout the score.
He wrote three themes and he played them for me on his piano in March of 1997.
And that's when I knew I had a movie because I cried on all three themes.
First one, I was just like, holy shit, dude.
It's amazing.
And I said, we've got a score.
He said, I haven't written the score yet.
I said, we've got a score.
And I wasn't wrong.
I knew from that moment that it was going to be great.
And yeah, sure, he wrote it.
He orchestrated it.
He went out.
He recorded it with a 100-piece orchestra.
But I knew from that simple piano melody that we were good.
And I think at that point, I started to have some faith that the movie itself would deliver on what I intended it to deliver.
You know, there's a funny point in movies.