James Cameron

Be ready, because when that door opens—but the critical thing is to understand it's not an example of an opportunity.

It is the opportunity.

You either take it or you don't.

You don't use it as a time to think about, well, when the next one comes along, I may or may not.

You know what I mean?

That's not how it works.

You go.

You launch.

And that opportunity for me was that a guy that I was working with on learning to sculpt and make molds, who was a little bit ahead of me on the sort of fan curve of actually knowing how to do rubber armatures for stop motion, and I was pretty fascinated by that, his opportunity

sister was dating a guy who was a carpenter on a super low budget Roger Corman science fiction film.

And I just said, introduce us.

And so she talked to him, he talked to them.

We got an appointment and we went in and showed our little models and our little things that we had.

And I had this film that I had made with some friends and we both got jobs on a Roger Corman film.

And we thought we'd died and gone to heaven because now we were getting a paycheck on

on a real movie.

No, it was a total piece of crap movie.

It was a little tiny movie.

It was actually the biggest movie Roger Corman had ever made.

It was like a million dollars or something like that, which was huge for him.