“I think the through-line there is storytelling,” the director told NPR in 2012. “When I learned some other guys had dived to the Titanic to make an IMAX movie, I said, ‘I’ll make a Hollywood movie to pay for an expedition and do the same thing.” I loved that first taste, and I wanted more.”Ĭameron sees his filmmaking and sea exploration as connected. “The Titanic was the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, and as a diver I wanted to do it right,” he said. “I made ‘Titanic’ because I wanted to dive to the shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie,” he told the publication. Here’s what the director has said in the past about the deep sea exploration.Ĭameron told Playboy in 2009 that it wasn’t a love story aboard the doomed Titanic that inspired him to make his hit 1997 film. While Cameron has not publicly commented on the current search for the Titanic tour OceanGate submersible with five people on board, he has personally made 33 dives to the wreckage site.ĬNN has reached out to representatives of Cameron for comment. Those paths have crossed in two of his biggest hits, “Avatar” and “Titanic.”
James Cameron isn’t just one of Hollywood’s most successful directors ever, he’s also a lover of deep sea exploration.
