James Cameron

And so I had to work, and I worked various jobs, all blue-collar jobs, right?

And I didn't mind working.

I didn't mind just sort of being, you know?

And I got married at a very early age.

I had a little pink house with a white picket fence and a dog.

You know, and it was kind of, you know, kind of comforting.

It was very, very limited and simple.

But at the same time, in my after hours as a truck driver, because it was a, you know, nine to five or an eight to five job, I was painting, I was drawing, I was storytelling for myself.

My wife didn't understand that.

She was a waitress and she liked the me that was social and with her, but not the me that was off, you know, creating all these worlds.

And so I was still trying to reconcile that kind of social facing versus the landscape of my own imagination.

But I've always been comfortable in my own head that way.

Dreams are a big part of it.

Dreams are a big part of my creativity, a source of imagery, a source of little bits and pieces of narrative.

Because it can be quite chaotic and jumbled, but still within that, there can be some interesting things.

And so I think it was all just building up, building up a pressure to the point where I had to do something about it.

And that was in my mid-20s.

And so I was kind of a late starter.

I never went to film school, you know.

My film school was the drive-in movie theaters of Orange County.