James Cameron asserts he's made too much money to care what you think about his dialogue

James Cameron is rare among high-profile filmmakers, not just because of his enormous success, but because of how little it seems to have done to insulate him from an almost overwhelming sense of crankiness about how his films are received. This is a man who, 25 years after the fact , hired actors and scientists to try to prove that Leonardo DiCaprio's ass would have drowned at the end of Titanic, no matter what your irritating friends on the internet say about how much room was on that goddamn floating door. This is not a man who lacks in pettiness, or the resources to fulfill it.

As a minor example, take an excerpt from an interview Cameron recently gave to Empire , timed to the 40th anniversary of his breakout hit, The Terminator. When asked about whether he still likes the original movie four decades later, Cameron appears to walk himself down the following little road, and it's a real lesson in the ways the mind can run when you're sufficiently irritated about something for a sufficiently long time; while acknowledging he wishes the film had better production values, Cameron notes "I don't cringe on any of the dialogue, but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write... You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we'll talk about dialogue effectiveness."