He is writer and director. He is cinematographer and camera operator. He is the creator of an entirely new language and the leader of a team of artists inventing creatures and forests and a race of aliens who are all left-handed simply because he, too, is left-handed. Possibly the only job James Cameron didn't slip into during the years-long production of "Avatar" was working the grill station at the craft-service tent.

Might Cameron have just a smidgen of a God complex? Or, at the very least, a lofty, if more terrestrially based, opinion of his own talents? This is the guy, after all, who infamously declared himself King of the World at the 1998 "Titanic"-dominated Oscars.

"Every director has a God complex," Cameron said during a recent interview with MTV News. "Every director is creating a world even if it's a story that takes place in an apartment."

Few directors, of course, have had the same kind of success as Cameron — from his early sci-fi films "Terminator" and "Aliens" to the all-time box-office champ, "Titanic" — and perhaps that success has a lot to do with his hands-in-every-honey-pot approach to filmmaking. But Cameron was also quick to credit the help he received from his crew every step of the way.

"I'm just amazed by what the team was able to create," he said. "I love the design. I'm an artist, a sketch artist, so I love designing the creatures, but I worked with a team. Trust me, it's not easy creating all this stuff. ... People sort of think we shot it in New Zealand because the rain forests are beautiful there, which, of course, they are, but we didn't have a single day of exteriors on the movie. It was all created with ones and zeros."

It's hard to argue with the 3-D, computer-generated results — or the breathless praise that has been streaming out based on early screenings — as the MTV Movies team can attest. Corny dialogue and trite plot points aside, "Avatar" offers a truly transporting experience, one immersive in a way that finally fulfills the promise of motion-capture technology.

So, you know what? Let Cameron have his heavenly complex. What the guy is passionate about in the end undoubtedly pays entertaining dividends for moviegoers.

"The kinds of films that I loved growing up were films that created fantasy worlds," he said. "And at a certain point I decided to stop being a fan and start being a practitioner. But you never stop being a fan, and this is the kind of stuff that I love. I get a thrill out of it."

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