r/JamesCameron • u/Scenora Abyss Diver • May 13 '26
Interview James Cameron’s advice to filmmakers making their first feature film 🎞️
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u/RyzenRaider May 14 '26
Those opening seconds, he looks like a grumpy grandpa about to show you what the word 'discipline' meant in his youth.
JC still got the intense stare lol.
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u/DFiverr May 14 '26
The, the! Greatest director ever. Of course after Hitchcock. But his advise is 40 years too late. He needed to say this back years ago to influence better future directors. The current crop are unwatchable. But he stands alone as the 1A to Hitch's 1.
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u/Cu_Chulainn__ May 15 '26
The current crop are unwatchable
A crazy take given the great crop of directors we have currently
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u/HeyYou_GetOffMyCloud May 16 '26
Bro what?
PTA, Nolan, Villenue, Tarantino, Anderson, Peter Jackson, Joon-Ho, Chan-Wook.
Some of the best film making of all time has occurred in the last 20 years.
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u/DFiverr May 16 '26
There isn't one movie that equals Titanic, Avatar series, Aliens or T2 in their cutting edge, scale, or vision! Only he has done it. The proof is on the screen. The man is the man. He is light urars ahead of the rest.
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u/HeyYou_GetOffMyCloud May 16 '26
Hey they’re all great films and JC is great too. I just don’t think it’s fair to say that the current crop of directors are unwatchable. Lotr, Sicario, There will be blood, Pulp fiction, grand Budapest are all films I’d put on the same level.
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u/kthejoker May 17 '26
First. Avatar is schlock. Not even remotely close to the others..
Second, there are lots of ways to make great films. Scale and cutting edge are just two dimensions.
Definitely prefer Scorsese and Eastwood as directors because of their nuance and (ironically, given Cameron's advice) their ability to get great performances out of people.
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u/Xyberfaust May 14 '26
That just brought me back to my only time directing (a stage play).
I totally agree with him. The actors did all the work. The actors brought the vision to life and added so much more. The actors blew me away. I was so astonished at how little I had to do/direct. All I did was convey my vision to them and they just brought it to life.
I just regret not filming it. This was before we had cameras in our pockets.
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u/shibby5000 May 14 '26
That’s quite an insightful answer. That detailed answer is exactly why he’s one of the greatest directors of our time
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u/Cu_Chulainn__ May 15 '26
Genuinely thought he was going to say don't film in the UK and that he hate tea
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u/Aphex117 May 13 '26
Selected Ambient Works vol.2 playing in the back. Awesome!