James Cameron recalls who cursed him at Fox Exec

James Cameron keeps in mind both the people who helped him along the way and the people who didn't.

The 68-year-old Academy Award-winning director claimed to GQ in an interview that after a heated argument about the contentious running time of his record-breaking 2009 epic picture Avatar, he instructed a Fox official to "get the f— out of my office."

Before the eagerly anticipated debut of his follow-up Avatar: The Way of Water, director James Cameron recalled a specific conversation with a Fox executive, "who will go unnamed, because this is a really negative review."

Cameron said the exec hovered him with a "stricken cancer-diagnosis expression" after an early screening of the actual movie over its two-hour, 42-minute length.

"I said something I've never said to anybody else in the business," Cameron recounted, telling him: " 'I think this movie is going to make all the f—ing money. And when it does, it's going to be too late for you to love the film. The time for you to love the movie is today.' "

He continued, " 'So I'm not asking you to say something that you don't feel, but just know that I will always know that no matter how complimentary you are about the movie in the future when it makes all the money'—and that's exactly what I said, in caps, ALL THE MONEY, not some of the money, all the f—ing money. I said, 'You can't come back to me and compliment the film or chum along and say, "Look what we did together."' You won't be able to do that.' "

"At that point, that particular studio executive flipped out and went bug s— on me. And I told him to get the f— out of my office. And that's where it was left," Cameron said