Working With James Cameron

"This is just my opinion, and I'm not undermining anyone else's experience but if you're weak, you can't take it. If you're strong you can take anything.

"And Jim is a very strong person because he's passionate, he's intense, he's detailed, he's a perfectionist.

"And these are things that I don't consider flaws in a human being. If anything, they're things I aspire to be when I grow up, so Jim was a perfect person to work with, to learn from, to want to be like.

"And yeah, you'll have your bad days, but at the same time too, if I'm not getting something right, I don't think you want to be next to me either. I'm not an easy cookie to deal with.

"For some reason I like working with people of like minds. And Sam is the same way - he's a little firecracker like that, whenever we couldn't get something, we were smashing sh*t.

"We had a punching back on set and we were kicking it every day! If it wasn't me, it was Jim or Sam, but it was a very safe environment and very respectful and Jim is not the kind of director who will boss you around.

"Jim will tell you what he wants you to do by showing you. So if somebody shows you and they can do it, it just encourages you to be like that. I have so much respect for that.

"So if you can hang, by all means do a James Cameron movie, because it's pretty fun."

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