![]() After cost overruns and delays, “Titanic” was written off as a sure-to-bomb case study of Hollywood excess. But if you’re not ready to fall on your ass, you’re not doing anything interesting.” “I’m going to fall on my ass sooner or later. ![]() “I don’t want to do anything but big swings,” Cameron says. The film, which opens in theaters Thursday, might be Cameron’s most ambitious undertaking yet - which is saying something for the 68-year-old filmmaker of “Titanic,” “The Terminator” and “Aliens.” is placing a very big wager, indeed, on “The Way of Water.” But regardless of jokes about blue people or Papyrus font, Cameron’s latest - a deep-blue ocean epic of natural splendor, ecological protectionism and family perseverance - is poised to again blow audiences away, and possibly, once more rake in billions. With a reported price tag of more than $350 million, a third “Avatar” film already wrapped and two more films planned after that, the Walt Disney Co. We want to remind people what the theatrical experience is.’” ![]() The word I got from them all the way along was: ‘We want quality. That could have gone south but it didn’t. “It was 20th Century Fox, Jim Gianopulos specifically, who OK’ed this film to go forward. “The important thing is that there are people willing to bet on me and on the ideas that interest me and I want to go forward with” Cameron says, speaking by video conference.
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