James Cameron

The ocean is unforgiving.

Either your math is right or your equipment fails.

It'll implode or the electronics will flood and it won't work and you'll come back with nothing.

And that's not a critic's opinion.

I came up with this idea, this principle that the second law of thermodynamics is not an opinion.

It's a law.

It's not some critic's opinion.

It's not some journalist's opinion.

It's not even a fickle audience member's opinion or some blogger's trolling opinion.

It either works or it doesn't.

And I really enjoyed immersing myself in a world of hard rules.

You succeed or you fail not based on your art or your creativity or somebody else's subjective opinion of your art because the two don't exist without each other.

That's the crazy thing.

So as an artist, you bury your soul and you can be utterly rejected.

But ultimately, the point of art is to communicate with other humans.

They may hate it, you know, so you put yourself at risk.

I thought, you know what, I'm just going to go into an empirical world, a Cartesian world where it either works or it doesn't based on good engineering.

And that was good.

And I learned some really important human lessons in that world as well because when you're offshore with a small team –

It's all about respect and cohesion and that bond.