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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Visionary filmmaker James Cameron is famous for

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Speaker 1: making some of the most groundbreaking, popular, and top grossing

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Speaker 1: movies in cinematic history, and for making some of the

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Speaker 1: most expensive. For instance, Avatar the Way of Water reportedly

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Speaker 1: cost a quarter of a billion dollars to shoot, but

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Speaker 1: James doesn't think too much should be made about their cost.

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Speaker 1: He tells g Q. I used to be really defensive

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Speaker 1: about my budgets because it's always the first thing anybody mentions.

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Speaker 1: But now if I can make a business case to

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Speaker 1: spend a billion dollars on a movie, I'll do it

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Speaker 1: because we don't put it all in a pile and

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Speaker 1: light it on fire. We pay it to skill people.

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Speaker 1: If the studio agrees and things, it's a good investment

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Speaker 1: as opposed to someone else mine an oil lease off

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Speaker 1: the north of Scotland, which somebody would think is a

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Speaker 1: good investment. Why not do it. Avatar The Way of

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Speaker 1: Water hits theaters today. That's direct from Hollywood.