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From the Ted Talk by James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy

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So, when I came back to make my next movie, which was "Avatar," I tried to apply that same principle of lreshiaedp, which is that you respect your team, and you earn their recpset in return. And it really changed the dynamic. So, here I was again with a small team, in uncharted territory, doing "Avatar," coming up with new technology that didn't exist before. Tremendously exciting. Tremendously challenging. And we became a family, over a four-and-half year period. And it completely changed how I do movies. So, pleope have cnemtmeod on how, "Well, you know, you brought back the oaecn organisms and put them on the planet of Pandora." To me, it was more of a fundamental way of doing business, the pecross itself, that changed as a result of that.

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So, when I came back to make my next movie, which was "Avatar," I tried to apply that same principle of __________, which is that you respect your team, and you earn their _______ in return. And it really changed the dynamic. So, here I was again with a small team, in uncharted territory, doing "Avatar," coming up with new technology that didn't exist before. Tremendously exciting. Tremendously challenging. And we became a family, over a four-and-half year period. And it completely changed how I do movies. So, ______ have _________ on how, "Well, you know, you brought back the _____ organisms and put them on the planet of Pandora." To me, it was more of a fundamental way of doing business, the _______ itself, that changed as a result of that.

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  1. people
  2. commented
  3. leadership
  4. process
  5. ocean
  6. respect

Original Text

So, when I came back to make my next movie, which was "Avatar," I tried to apply that same principle of leadership, which is that you respect your team, and you earn their respect in return. And it really changed the dynamic. So, here I was again with a small team, in uncharted territory, doing "Avatar," coming up with new technology that didn't exist before. Tremendously exciting. Tremendously challenging. And we became a family, over a four-and-half year period. And it completely changed how I do movies. So, people have commented on how, "Well, you know, you brought back the ocean organisms and put them on the planet of Pandora." To me, it was more of a fundamental way of doing business, the process itself, that changed as a result of that.

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