Cameron: 'I want to blow audiences away'

James Cameron has said that he likes his films to blow the audience away.

The director of upcoming 3D sci-fi movie Avatar also told The Times that it was "incorrect" that he was scared of filmmaking after 1997's Titanic.

Cameron said: "I like to blow an audience away. I like to f**k with their heads. I like to show 'em stuff they've probably seen in a dream but they've never seen in a movie.

"Like they've had an experience outside their day-to-day life, outside this world, maybe outside their body. It will have been a visual journey, a physical journey - in the sense you feel like you've actually climbed that mountain - and an emotional journey."

When asked if studio executives were worried about the technology used in Avatar, Cameron continued: "Oh, yes, absolutely. Any sane person would be. We had taken them very slowly by the hand through what we were doing, but many of the answers we were giving them were things we had found out ten minutes earlier.

"My God, they were pulling the reins as much as they could. But ultimately what brought them back was the possibility of doing something really unprecedented."

Of the future of filmmaking, he added: "Budgets may plunge, but I have already told the studio executives, 'I don't care if the highest-budgeted film of the year costs just $2m - as long as I'm the one making that motherf**ker, I'm happy'."

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