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James Cameron doesn't give a shit

Ali

12th November 2009

Avatar director James Cameron has opened up in the December issue of Playboy (easy) and, unsurprisingly, there's a buttload of choice quotes - in fact, he stops short of telling the world to go stick a finger in its ass.

By all accounts, James Cameron is awesome. He's the guy who made Titanic, still the highest-grossing movie ever by a considerable margin. He also made Aliens, The Terminator and True Lies. He's a famous hardass and takes no shit from his crew members (one of his crew t-shirts infamously read: 'When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Tell It To You'). He also made Avatar, which looks like being the most technologically stunning movie of the decade.

However, speaking in the December issue of Playboy, Cameron has revealed himself to be possibly even more awesome than we first thought. Below are a few quotes from the magazine; read them and try and imagine directors like Brett Ratner and Shawn Levy being even 1/10th as badass.

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[On making Titanic] "I made Titanic because I wanted to dive to a shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie...Titanic was about 'f*ck you' money... We let Kate [Winslet] think she was nearly drowning. A little sputtering and coughing does not count in my book, because I have almost drowned several times... Anybody who signs on [with me] is going to be tested."
BAM!

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[On Avatar] "We know from the exit polling that the response was 95 percent ecstatic. Most of the five percent negative response is from the fanatic fans who imagined the movie in their minds but now have to deal with my movie."
BAM!

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[On attending his high school reunion] "If you ever go to a 25th high school reunion, make sure that in the previous two months you've made the world's highest-grossing movie, won 11 Academy Awards and become physically bigger than most of those guys who used to beat you up.

I walked up to them one by one and said, 'You know, I could take your ass right now, and I'm tempted, but I won't.'
BAM!

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[On Twitter] "On Twitter, a tweet has to be less than, what, 25 words? There isn't one concept I would be interested in discussing with anyone that could be summed up in 25 words or fewer."
BAM!

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[On Christian Bale's set rant] "Man, I have to take my hat off to this guy. I could not pull a rant like that if I had to. I mean, I can get on a roll but not like that. I just had to bow down."
There's a fine line between being a cranky, obnoxious asshole and a cranky, obnoxious genius, but James Cameron is on the right side of the divide. If I ever get too old to enjoy his interviews, and indeed his movies, take me outside and drop me like a sack of potatoes.

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