James Cameron
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 22 Dec
James Cameron’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not really.
I kind of kept my hand in.
So after Titanic was a big hit and I was questioning, you know, is this even important?
Is Hollywood even important?
It seems like such a glitzy game and it seems kind of quite fatuous.
And at about that time, I wound up on the NASA Advisory Council, believe it or not.
And I looked around a room full of people who were very –
uh intelligent most of them all of them really better educated than me with a strong sense of purpose right that they were doing something extraordinary they were exploring space and none of them cared about hollywood they didn't even know what was happening they oh the oscars what's that oh yeah you know it's where they and i could name a movie star they wouldn't even recognize
I mean, sure, there's always little movie fans here and there, but it just mattered to them.
It didn't matter to them at all.
They were doing something far more important.
And that was a real bucket of cold water.
It's like, oh, all these things.
We live in this little self-referential bubble that we think is so important, and it just isn't.
And so I thought, you know, maybe I'll just explore around a little bit just in life, you know.
And because I had gotten to do an expedition to the wreck site where I was really now becoming conversant with real deep ocean technology, I thought, why don't I just go down that road?
I know everybody.
I know all the scientists and researchers and submersible people and everything.
So I just started creating expeditions and building new technical systems, cameras and lighting systems and exploratory vehicles.
And the other thing I liked about it is...
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