James Cameron
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And when you come back to shore, you can't even explain to people how hard it was or why it worked or what it took.
But that bond exists between those people.
And then I realized, okay, we're only as good as our team.
And after Titanic, I put together a team to do The Impossible, which was Avatar.
Nobody had ever made a film like that.
It was a new form of cinema.
And I remember we fell on our ass.
Some of the first things we tried, we were face down on the ground.
And we'd stop in the middle of a production day and pull out a table and sit around it.
And there'd be a bunch of glum faces because it wasn't working.
And I'd say, guys, this may seem like the hardest day of the production.
This is going to be the day you remember.
Because this is the day we write page 38 of the manual that tells the rest of the world how this stuff works.
And we're going to do it, and we're going to figure it out.
It was like, you know, Sully's never quit.
And then we did, and we figured it out.
And then there's such a feeling of pride and cohesiveness in the group after that.
And you start to feel like, okay, bring the next challenge.
We'll figure it out.
And the team spirit and the team morale is so high now.