James Cameron

I'd sit on the quad at college.

And I'd just have my math notebook or whatever, and I'd be sketching some girl sitting under a tree or some guy or my own hand or, you know, I mean, it was just always drawing.

I couldn't imagine not drawing.

I mean, look, you can get very solitary, the creative act, especially when you write, right?

Because you really have to just, you know, isolate and you need to be in your own headspace and be comfortable there for long periods of time.

So it can be isolating.

I remember, and you know, I mean, our memory of our childhood is always tainted by the stories that we tell ourselves and we don't remember the event, we remember the story.

Yes, very true.

Because memory is an interesting thing.

We're not video cameras.

There isn't enough storage in this three and a half pound meat computer to last a lifetime.

It'd be a million petabytes of data.

We just don't have room for that, right?

So we don't remember the event like a videotape.

We remember the story we tell ourselves.

The story I tell myself is that I spent a lot of time on my own in my imagination in the woods.

connecting with nature, finding animals, finding bugs, collecting butterflies, tadpoles, whatever it was.

A lot of time on my own drawing and just thinking and creating.

And a lot of time with other kids organizing and doing fun collective projects.

You know, the one in the neighborhood that always said, hey, guys, let's build a fort.