true but what is right is right

700Mio$ till AVATAR sequels than he joines the Lucas/Spielberg Directors Billion $ Club with the profit of all new AVATAR sequels

this is a socialistic mentality, if he works his ass off even if hes in the .01% he deserves the money, it is kind of him to reject the money... not him doing what he should because he is rich and someone else could use it.

Cornwall1888 “comfortable” lmfao 🤣

@@dr.martinlroberts1908 Probably a contract clause cost him the money, you know some of these guys like him RDJ & Nolan can make a studio not make any money after paying their hefty salaries

I think you have to be pretty confident to have the career that he's had

Wouldn't you have some if you'd gone from being a truck driver to making the biggest blockbuster movie of all time?

He's a fucking shit head.

Whats that suppose to mean?

@@lpmmxvii7422 yes

Same really enjoyed this

Master Sir that he comes over as a nice guy and not some rich asshole

Same, you can sense how clever and good this man really is, I'm impressed. (I'm not easily impressed)

I thought that, dong swinging galore

He was talking about His role in the movie True Lies.

Bait and switch

Lol

kingman2332 No he wasnt. He was talking about the first Terminator. True Lies is much later

the easiest to xerox book about film directing, fits on one page

Tabs T lmaooo

the answer is 243834923.097

right. .. they rapid fire!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

He talks crazy fast!

I'm sure Cameron was unphased, brilliant man

The best is when Ringo yelled at Howard to let him finish

I watched at 0.75 speed.

Now Howard is not fast like that anymore. Aged and therapy slowed him down.

Yeah, he got paid. And made even more money after they released Titanic 3D.

He got a flat fee of $1.5 million for writing the script and that’s it.

Exaclty like im sure he got some good chunk of that BO money since his net worth is 700 million now

@@denenterpriesesorwhatsleft6386 I mean Avatar wasnt exactly spare change either hahaha

I just read an article that they made a deal that would give him tens of millions of dollars as compensation after the movie broke box office records.

He is a fascinating man. A huge inspiration for anyone who believes in themselves and their dreams.

Yeah he's really inspiring

Still don't know how he landed Piranha 2.

hes one of the best directors out there, his movies are shot so well. say what u will about avatar. its a fuking joy to watch.

Yeah.. that surprised me as well

Too late, no more directors allowed.

Dumb ass he worked for corman studios learnt SFX and film making there, literally the best film school at that time.

DO IT!

24 is still so, so young. People that age shouldn't be deterred if they haven't made it yet. But yes, it is quite fascinating that such an accomplished, Oscar-winning director wasn't even familiar with his craft until the age of 24. I'm glad he found a passion for filmmaking and that his talent didn't go to waste like so many others.

The moral of the story is skip the college and spend the money somewhere else.

I have seen 2 hours interviews with less questions.

Might be the only one

😂😂😂😂😂😂

I've seen better.

I don't even think they thought he was being sarcastic. Lol

Chicago killa cause it’s JAMES FREAKIN CAMERON

That's Howard Stern to you

you ever heard Stern?🤣

And James Cameron answered right back quickly. It's really nice flow of information.

Usually that sucks if the guy looses track of what he was saying before being interrupted. Here, Stern does a quick clarification question that gets answered then Cameron gets back on track. I've seen both; this one was the good version.

From where. Link please.

Are these clips just from archives?

it was youtube a few years ago before it got taken down

@@faisalmemon285 he's asking.

Seriously. Where

And the truck scenes in The Terminator as well. 😊

in the first Terminator, when he pulls up to the first Sarah Connor’s house, the car smashes a toy bigrig truck in the road

@@SeenGod waow, who knew it symbolises so much

SEENgod that HAD to be carefully planned. Brilliant now we know the backstory

so many trucks in terminator movies... i think james likes trucks 🤔🤔🤔

His reply went unnoticeable for most audience

Call Roger Corman, you may not even need the truck. All you have to say is "I'm a director". Funny that almost ALL directors say the same thing...even Roger Corman.

You got a class a or b? I'll give u some advice if you need. I've been trucking for 8 years now

Lmao

Albert Albert im couple steps ahead. Working as a truck driver and thinking I’m a movie director)) good luck to both of us

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I WANT MY SLAW!! YES

hes from nyc

I think it’s edited. It seems like they took questions out, shortened answers and cut the time in between questions.

Pretty sure he's always high on coke or amphetamine

listen to ben shapiro. that dude talks like he does a line of cocaine before breakfast every day

Tony Stark endgame defeated every record it is

@@masonwright7700 ... Haha after so many years . Wait for Avatar next films .

Love your channel, been subscribed for a long time

They sort of gloss over the fact that he somehow got to work with Roger Corman and was art designer on a couple of movies and directed second unit on another before he got handed the directing chores on Piranha II.

Joncarl Gantt I mean it’s basically pocohontas. His movies are always “Good bad explosions love” never amazing dramas. He’s a box office director and that’s fine

And he wrote Avatar also

You really don't need to. He already understood the most important lesson of successful commercial filmmaking...the audience isn't that bright. His movies are written and "crafted" for that audience. It's a simple recipe for a simple product. Kudos to him.

It doesn't matter. Film school is basically a scam.

I dropped out of film school too. Its trash. Today you can learn everything about it off the internet and you have KZfaq and Vimeo and you are ready to go.

True lies

@@kitjames1279 he’s non threatening which makes him appealing to actors and to the money men

One Door Films that’s true, and they’re both Canadian. Weird....

Well, now you know who they're gonna get for the eventual Biopic.

Check out rob wolchek hes a investigative reporter out of Detroit. He looks like an older cameron.

@S Tra you clearly don't know Linus then , lol

S Tra Most do, most don’t, we Canadians don’t look all the same

Why not 15 years?

@Justin Edwards Yes but Titanic initially made $1.8 Billion

Justin Edwards don’t think so other than the new ones

@Justin Edwards directly from Wikipedia: With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark, and became the highest-grossing film ever at the time, until Cameron's Avatar surpassed it in 2010. .... took him 13 years to beat his own record.... Jurassic Park held the record before that....

@Justin Edwards Titanic hit $1.8 billion in its original run

SPARKY SINN Actually, the movie was a slow burn. It only made like 25 million opening weekend which is incredibly low for a movie that cost 200 mil. Titanic is one of the rare movies where it’s second week didn’t drop much and kept making consistent steady money every weekend with little drops and actually gaining more which is really unheard of. Also helped the movie was in theaters for almost a year.

Niagara Falls Ontario to be exact. Attended Stamford high school on Drummond Rd.

Yeah that's usually how it goes with the back end %, and given the box office split it probably wasn't hitting profit until around $500 million. The deals are always a convoluted mess between competing interests with so much opportunity to cheat, which is why it always ends up in litigation. LOTR was like that, Star Wars was like that. You'll often see directors and writers suing the studio for the last movie while at the same time negotiating with them for the next. There's no way he wasn't raking it in on the later BO receipts and especially the home video and merchandising, which is how Lucas and Jackson also made most of their earnings. Besides, there's no way the unions would allow him not to make a sizeable profit from the creative; BO is one thing, but the IP itself is another thing entirely.

Doesn't sound like it from that interview clip. Sounds like he gave up all of his pay and potential pay for the movie. Cameron seems to go to great lengths to stress that to Howard Stern.

@@jackanaples In 2010 he was reported to have made $97 million off Titanic, up to that point.

@@jackanaples Like he said some of these expensive filmmakers can make a studio not earn anything

@bobbyladd I think your right.

This was filmed in 1997...

all power to him, you work your ass off you deserve it

Wait until those new Avatars come out and that new Terminator he's gonna be a billionaire here soon.

Skrooge Lantay But OP seemed to be implying that it was disingenuous for Cameron to say that he’s “comfortable, not wealthy” because he’s worth X amount in 2019. That’s why it was relevant to point out when this interview took place. In other words, it doesn’t make sense to act dumbfounded at Cameron calling himself “comfortable” in 1997 when his financial circumstances were very different just because he’s worth 300 million today, twenty two years and dozens of successful movies later. You see how that works?

@Starscream91 From what I have researched, this interview was two days before the release of Titanic. This interview was in 1997. Titanic hit the theaters December 19th 1997.

T. Stamp probably did

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I didn't really notice the talking but I was watching this early on and saw Cameron's eyes and wondered what he was on.

Reginald Andretti can I get MY first break.

Then take a look in the mirror.

Neither of them is humble.

luvyou baby all Howard Stern Interviews have always been good. Where have u been???

You subscribe to Sirius radio.

Sirius XM app unfortunately.

@islanti i just tried to subscribe, and got blocked. Might be cause im outside the US

Patrick Lipski fucking always, that’s why I love opie and Anthony. Not opie but Anthony really

I guess that would be after the release of Titanic, because this interview was happened two days before Titanic hit the theaters

Fuck Rupert Murdoch

We'll see what he considers NO MONEY and you and I consider NO MONEY has a different meaning. You and I think no money, when you physically receive nothing................To James, $100 million is nothing.

I think he got upward of $300 million, cause he basically made Avatar with his own money. And some from Steve Mnuchen.

@@JJSPARROW1978 well he meant that if the movie got minimal profits he won't get any money because the studio needs the money but if the movie became a success he will get money depending on the rate of profit so it was like a gamble for him where his chance of getting money was based on movie's success