James Cameron Says His BP “Morons” Quote Was Taken Out Of Context

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by Steve Krakauer | 9:31 am, June 7th, 2010

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Legendary director James Cameron has been one of the most vocal members of the film community during the BP oil spill clean-up process, even last week assembling a team to independently come up with some ideas.

But he says he was quoted out of context when he called the BP execs “morons” for turning down his help.

This morning, Cameron was live from Malibu on the Today show to explain the greater context of calling them “morons.” He said “that’s where I started” in his thinking, but after he “got into it with this team of experts,” he realized that the “morons” were actually doing the best they could in a very difficult situation. Or as Cameron put it: “They can actually make this worse. I know its hard to imagine.”

That doesn’t mean Cameron and his group are giving up – now they’ll give their advice directly to the media (Today show this morning, Larry King in a prime time exclusive tonight!). What would he do if he was in charge today? “Our groups recommendation is to go back to the top kill type of process where you get heavy oil drilling mud down the well, build up some hydrostatic pressure,” said Cameron. If BP watches the Today show, they’ll hear the director’s take anyway.

Cameron also expressed concern that the only images coming from the Gulf spill are from BP’s cameras, and our government should employ their own set of cameras down there. Out of all the coalition, Cameron has certainly been the most vocal. And after immersing himself in underwater research for Titanic, he knows what he’s talking about (at least to some degree).

Until BP wants to invite Cameron to the table, he’ll take his story to the media, which is more than willing to give the celebrity director the airtime and platform he desires.

Here’s the Today interview:

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TylerDurden

James, you are the moron. You were not taken out of context anymore than Rev. Wright was. Stick by your words or apologize like Helen tried to do.
http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

LOL. Sounds like BP is getting to him and makin him their little bitch…
Level Headed American

Did you guys only read the headline?
stoogedudes

He did call them morons, but I don’t think it was for being turned down to help. Why should he apologize, though? He is right! They don’t know what they are doing, otherwise, the problem would be FIXED by now.
lanquihue

Cameron is a douche nozzle, and if he would up in an industrial accident where a forklift’s blade ran him through, and removing it would result in his instant death, I wouldn’t mind at all if someone were there reminding him that he’ll quickly black out for the last time once the forklift backs up.
TylerDurden

Level Headed American says:
June 7, 2010 at 11:08 am

Did you guys only read the headline?”

Apparently you did. He stumbled all over his words in a flimsy explanation for what he did. He should stand by his words or apologize.
http://none pyrope

So many “solutions” from people who’ve never spent one day in their entire lives on an oil rig or a production platform. Please show us your degree in Petroleum Engineering Mr. Cameron. What’s that you say? You don’t have one? You IDIOT!!!! What would you think if a BP exec. told you how to make movies?
MORON!
Level Headed American

“I got into with a team of experts including petrol-chemical engineers and people who really know a lot about deep well control and deep drilling.” – Cameron

Cameron joined a team of experts and is likely bankrolling a large part of it to attempt to come up with a solution to help save the Gulf of Mexico. Cameron offered his knowledge of deep sea filming along with other possible solutions.

This is a problem that everybody is complaining about that BP and the U.S government aren’t doing enough. A third party is doing thier own reserch to try to help and you call THEM morons?

What have you done to help PYROPE?