New Delhi:As the second instalment of epic science fiction film Avatar: The Way of Water is creating a tizzy at the box-office, award-winning director James Cameron has spoken about the pressures a filmmaker has to go through on making a movie at such a grand scale.
Cameron shared that one of the pressures on many filmmakers is how to stay objective about your own film. "I think there are a lot of pressures on many filmmakers... one of the biggest ones that people rarely talk about is how to stay objective about your own film. If you work on a film for five years at the end of that period can you still look at the movie and see it with fresh eyes," he said.
"I think this is one of the hardest skills that as director one has to develop, right..." The 68-year-old Academy Award-winner agreed that there are pressures. "There is also the pressure of getting the film done as quickly as possible and this is not a quick film to make clearly. We have had over 3000 vfx shots in this movie and too just to put that on perspective on Terminator 2, I had 42 vfx shots. So, that's an enormous pressure."
He shared his mantra of maintaining his calm. "There is budgetary pressure, there is deadline pressure all that things and I joke around that 'I eat pressure for breakfast bring it on'. And you have to fortify yourself with that kind of mantra... "