Since people know McG mainly as the guy behind awful movies like Charlie’s Angels, he’s been quick to point out that he took the job of directing Terminator 4 only with the blessing of Terminator 1 and 2 director James Cameron.  In an interview at Comic-Con (video after the jump), he said:

“The only thing I was concerned about is I didn’t wanna disrespect Jim Cameron.  So I went down and I talked to him and I told him what my take on the material was, and he told me he was actually interested in the way I made films, which I was surprised to hear, and then, uh, you know, he told me a story about how he was making the second Alien picture and he was following the great Ridley Scott and people thought he was nuts and he had a vision and he went for it.  And you can’t operate from a place of fear, and he kicked me in the ass and said, “Go do it.’”

Jim Cameron’s take on it appears to have been slightly different:

Q. Are you involved at all in the Christian Bale production of Terminator 4?
A:  It could be a big steaming pile or it could be brilliant. Sam Worthington is in Avatar and the new Terminator and he likes the script, but I never saw it. There was no blessing involved.

Obviously, one of them is lying.  Hmmm, director of the highest-grossing film of all time or the sleazy one-named dude who used to make Korn videos, I just don’t know who to trust…  I think what gave him away was that part about Jim Cameron being interested in how he made films.  “And I was like, I dunno dude, I just point the camera at chicks and make sure their hair looks really bangin, ya know?”

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