November 16, 2009
James Cameron on “Avatar”, amongst some fairly amazing quotes
"Do you want Paul Verhoeven to finish this motherfucker?" he shouted, an inch from Arnold Schwarzenegger's face, after the actor went AWOL from the set of "True Lies," a James Bond spoof that Cameron was shooting in Washington, D.C. [...] His evaluations of others' abilities are colorful riddles. "Hiring you is like firing two good men," he says, or "Watching him light is like watching two monkeys fuck a football." A small, loyal band of cast and crew works with him repeatedly; they call the dark side of his personality Mij-Jim backward.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker