Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness," he sid.

James Cameron doesn’t want to hear your complaints about his dialogue. Cameron has directed a number of the highest-grossing movies of all time, including 1997’s Titanic, 2009’s Avatar, and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water.

James Cameron has reflected on his 40-year film career which boasts classics including Titanic, The Terminator, and the highest grossing film of all-time, Avatar. However, the Oscar-winning director admitted that he finds his breakthrough movie “cringeworthy” and explained the reasons why.

The filmmaker stands by his dialogue, though: "Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness."

Taking it all the way back to where it began, James didn’t mince his words as he marked the 40th anniversary of his breakout feature – The Terminator – starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin.

"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," Cameron told Empire Magazine. "You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films--then we'll talk about dialogue effectiveness."

A film that shaped an entire generation, its characters and lines have become fixtures in pop culture, and it turned an Austrian actor into a top-tier Hollywood star. Meanwhile, it turns out that James Cameron

Although many consider it a masterpiece, James Cameron has enough distance from The Terminator to give it his honest review. Marking the 40th anniversary of his directorial debut, the 3x Oscar-winning director looked back on parts of the 1984 film as “pretty cringeworthy” as he admitted the “production value” didn’t age well.