Puebla (Mexico), March 9 (EFE).- “Having an idea and chasing it until it becomes reality is the real challenge of having a brilliant mind,” Canadian filmmaker and explorer James Cameron said on Thursday. during an event in the Mexican city of Puebla, central Mexico.

During his intervention at the Festival of Ideas which takes place in this city, Cameron, also a producer and screenwriter, shared a conversation with the participants on his creative base.

Además, dijo a la audiencia que tienen que seguir a su corazón ya las cosas que los apasionen, construir, maintener la curiosidad, contando su propia historia y no la de los demás, lo que logrará “hacer que tus ideas, sean la realidad del All”.

He pointed out that “you have to take giant steps”, but he said that to “avoid failure, you have to practice as many times as necessary”, because it allows you to gain experience and the perfection of each idea, in order to have an impact on the rest.

“Hope is not a strategy, luck is not a factor and fear is not an option, so they should always think about being that nail that they always drive in, because they don’t believe not into your ideas or they just believe those ideas do not They are viable.”

He mentions that everyone is the guide of his ideas, “but you always have to listen to the little ideas that come from the environment, from the people on the work team, because they magnify the main idea”, and you have to avoid moment that the idea deviates, that it changes, because then, “it is no longer viable”.

TITANIC, CAMERON’S GREATEST CHALLENGE

Cameron, 68, said Titanic, one of the three highest-grossing films of all time, “was something we never thought of” because he wanted to bring a real world to the screen , that’s why he put the “love story”

Secondly, he recalled that the film contained what he liked the most in life, that is to say the exploration and the depth of the oceans, and said that the most difficult thing was to explore the Titanic in a submarine to then make a film, which was “crazy”. , because it was created in a pond 20 meters deep.

In fact, the studio built a set on the Mexican beach of Rosarito, Baja California, where a pond was built to stage the moment the famous ship sank in 1912.

“I wrote the tragic story, part of a love story coupled with technology that would bring to life one of the most-watched films in cinematic history; It was one of the toughest projects, we went over budget, we were the mockery of Hollywood and it inspired us to be the best,” he concluded.

“Titanic” won 11 of the 14 Oscars it was nominated for in 1998, including Best Picture.