PART TWO: In the second part of this conversation, James Cameron picks up where we left off. He had been fired, humiliated and convinced he might have destroyed his one chance at directing. But out of that moment came a dream that reshaped cinema. The Terminator. James walks Bruna through the behind-the-scenes story of writing the script under impossible deadlines, the studio threats and the moment someone actually shouted “you will never work in this town again.”

From there, the trajectory is unstoppable. Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2 and True Lies. And then Titanic, a film James pursued not because anyone asked him to, but because he could not get the story out of his mind. He shares how the idea struck while watching a VHS of A Night to Remember, why he risked everything to make it, and the moment the world of Avatar was born from a coin toss and a desire to inspire people to care about the planet.
This episode charts the rise of a filmmaker whose imagination changed technology, storytelling and what audiences believe is possible on screen.