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Long Beach, California (CNN) — A lifelong fascination with science fiction and the ocean has driven “Avatar” director James Cameron’s career, he told the TED2010 conference Saturday.
“The ocean is so rich with amazing life,” he said beginning a session called “Wisdom,” the final one of the conference. “Nature’s imagination is so boundless compared to our own human imagination.”
Cameron said some thought his filming of “Titanic” was about the opportunity to depict “Romeo and Juliet” on the doomed ship. In fact, he said, “Secretly I wanted to dive to the wreck of the Titanic.”
He did wind up exploring the wreck and said he saw amazing forms of underwater life. Cameron was struck by the comparison between deep ocean exploration and space travel; in both cases there’s a search for alien creatures and no hope of rescue if you can’t get back yourself. “I completely closed the loop between being a science fiction fan as a kid and doing this stuff for real.”
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