No director in Hollywood is quite like James Cameron. The king of the blockbuster, he directed the first movies to earn more than US$1 billion and US$2 billion at the global box office, Titanic in 1997 and Avatar in 2009, respectively. But the boy who had a childhood obsession with shipwrecks also grew up to become a pioneer in deep-sea exploration, piloting the Deepsea Challenger submersible to the deepest-known point on Earth.
EARLY CAREER
Cameron initially pursued physics as a student at California State University, Fullerton, but left to follow his cinematic dreams. He worked as a truck driver, and would, in 1978. The film helped him get a job with New World Pictures, a company run by famed B-movie director, Roger Corman. At New World, Cameron worked in a number of different roles, from art director on (1980) to director on (1981).
