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In Conversation With James Cameron — Live In London

The Empire Film Podcast

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"We just all thought we were doomed. Our careers were over," says James Dyer, who was on set of Avatar for a couple of days. "I literally had a razor blade there. It said using case film sucks so that every day I would realize what the stakes were." Some of the executives at 20th Century Fox didn't believe in the movie, even when they saw it finished,. They couldn't get seeing everybody in their black tights with their marker dots out of their heads.

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