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James Cameron Reveals He Seriously Clashed with Studio Execs Over ‘Avatar’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest as the World of
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Speaker 1: Waits for the upcoming sequel to Avatar, It's legendary director
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Speaker 1: James Cameron has admitted he clashed with studio executives over
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Speaker 1: the original keeping My Avatar went on to become the
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Speaker 1: most profitable film in the history of cinema, but before
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Speaker 1: it was finished, they were butting heads over minor details,
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Speaker 1: and that was when he decided to remind them of
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Speaker 1: his pretty stellar track record, he tells The New York Times.
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Speaker 1: The studio felt that the film should be shorter and
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Speaker 1: that there was too much flying in it. I drew
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Speaker 1: a line in the sand and said, you know what
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Speaker 1: I made Titanic. This building that we're meeting in right now,
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Speaker 1: this new half a billion dollar complex on your lot.
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Speaker 1: Titanic paid for that, so I get to do this.
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Speaker 1: There's a responsibility to do the best job we can
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Speaker 1: to make it a money maker. But that doesn't translate
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Speaker 1: artistically to any decision I make when it's good enough,
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Speaker 1: you know. For the record, Titanic at the time was
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Speaker 1: the most profitable film ever and still stands today at
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Speaker 1: number three. Avatar The Way of Water arrives December sixteen
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