He had simpler ambitions: “I don’t think the studio executives believed it, but I wanted to make Titanic because I wanted to dive the wreck. I thought: How can I dive the Titanic and get somebody to pay for it? I’ll make a movie.” Cameron was simply pursuing his interest; the end product, perhaps the most popular movie of all time, was an afterthought. As Cameron told Men’s Journal, it was a side effect of a “personal quest.”
