James Cameron recently sat down with journalist Graham Bensinger for a conversation about his legendary reputation for intensity—and how it's changed over the years.Cameron will readily admit he was previously difficult to work with. But he’s changed. The director of Titanic, Avatar, and Terminator opened up about a massive shift in how he approaches leadership, and he explains why in the conversation below. - YouTube www.youtube.com The Moment He Changed"You said there was a time when ‘making a film was the most important thing in the world to me,’" Bensinger said in their conversation. "Now it's not.""Yes," Cameron responded. "It's a thing that I love to do, but I know how important my family is."Cameron pinpoints exactly when his perspective changed. He was sitting in NASA advisory council meetings after making Titanic, surrounded by geniuses and engineers working on space and deep-ocean projects."Everybody in that room, they were all PhDs, they were all top engineers, aerospace people," Cameron said. "They all felt they were doing something very important in the world. And none of them went to the movies. They just didn't care."Here were brilliant, purpose-driven people who couldn't give one flying flip about Hollywood, Cameron thought. That revelation was significant enough that he took a seven-year sabbatical from filmmaking between 1998 and 2005, during which he built subs, developed deep-sea cameras, and worked on Mars rover technology. (You know, James Cameron stuff.)As we've covered in pieces about work-life balance while breaking into the industry, your perspective and drive can...
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