James Cameron grateful for life experiences

James Cameron thinks he's a better filmmaker for having life experiences.



The 'Avatar' director didn't make his debut movie, 'Terminator', until he was 30 and though he worried he'd left it too late, he's now thankful he didn't jump straight into the industry as he thinks being a truck driver helped him hone his ear for convincing dialogue.

He told SciFiNow magazine: "I needed to just experience day-to-day life as a blue-collar guy, train my ear to the sound of dialogue and I think my writing is more realistic as a result of that."



And the 63-year-old filmmaker thinks it can be a huge "mistake" to simply jump from studying movies to forging a career from it.