James Cameron

James enjoys scuba diving.

James and his brother Mike earned 5 patents from the equipment that they designed to film under water for the movie "The Abyss".

James attended Fullerton College in California.

James appeared in an uncredited role in his movie "Titanic".

James wrote and directed the short film "Xeogenesis", when he was a film student.

James was the co-creator of the series Dark Angel. The only episode of the show that he directed was "Freak Nation", at the time is was shot it was not know that it would be the series finale.

James directed the music video to for Martini Ranch's song "Reach".

In 2007 James was ranked #3 on Entertainment Weekly's list of "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood".

In 2003 James was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Non-Fiction Programming for the TV documentary "Expedition: Bismarck", he shares the nomination with co-director Gary Johnstone.

In "Terminator 2" The screams you hear from the dying T-1000 actually belong to James.

James's dog, Wolfie, a German Shepherd, was in "The Terminator" in the scene at the hotel. The name of the dog was also in "Terminator 2" as the 'test' name used when the Terminator called John's parents.

James was involved in a lawsuit with Harland Ellison over the movie "The Terminator", Ellison claimed that the story was plagiarized from two of his Outer Limits episodes. They settled out of court, however, the film now acknowledge Ellison in the credits.

In 1998 James won 3 Oscar Awards for "Titanic", Best Director; Best Film Editing, shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris; Best Picture, shared with Jon Landau.

Star Wars (1977) inspired him to become a director.

James has invented a new generation stereo imaging camera named The Fusion Camera.

James wrote the scripts for Spider Man (2002) and Planet of the Apes (2001), but the studios preferred the versions of other directors.

The name of Summer Glau's character Cameron (Phillips) in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was intended as a homage to James, the writer and director of the original Terminator movies. He also wrote for the TV series.

James is a member of the American Cinema Editors society (ACE).

James is a big fan of Japanese anime.

James was a voracious reader in high school. Science fiction being a primary interest, he immersed himself in books by Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. Van Vogt, Harlan Ellison, and Larry Niven.

James is the eldest of five children. His mom, Shirley, was an artist while his father, Philip, was an electrical engineer.

At one point, he had three desks set up at his house. He used one desk to write the script for The Terminator, another for Aliens, and the third to finish his work on Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Besides working as a truck driver, James Was also employed in a machine shop, worked as a bus driver, and painted pictures to earn a living while continuing to write at night.

Aside from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the films which influenced James Cameron as a young person were Woodstock, Catch-22, Easy Rider, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather.

James was the one who drew the picture of Rose (played by Kate Winslet) in Titanic. The image was flipped to make it appear that Jack (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) drew it with his right hand.

James is the first to direct both a $100-million and a $200-million movie with
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Titanic respectively.

James conceived the story for The Terminator while he was in Rome. He sold the rights to the script to producer Gale Anne Hurd for only one dollar, on the condition that he will direct the film. The Terminator became one of his international hits.

As a teen, he used to create his own comic books. This talent in drawing helped him later in his filmmaking career on coming up with storyboards. He also filmed 16mm home movies just for fun.

James' production company is Lightstorm Entertainment. He is also one of the founders of Digital Domain, a visual effects company.

James is 6'2" (1.88m.) tall.

James's movie Titanic won eleven Oscar Awards and was nominated for another 3. It grossed 1.2 billion dollars, worldwide, at the box-office.

His nickname is Iron Jim. The name was coined due to his stern, stubborn nature as a director.