James Cameron

 James has earned a few extremely significant financial windfalls during his career, thanks to very smart business decisions. As we detail later in this article, James famously gave up his salary of $8 million when Titanic exceeded its budget. Instead, he chose to use a back-end point. These points ultimately resulted in the sum of $650 million for Cameron as the film was the top-grossing film of all until this point. Due to the same profit-sharing agreement, James has earned at least $350 million from the Avatar franchise until date.In 1973, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College which is which is a community college located in the northern part of Orange County, but ultimately left after a year. He later began working odd jobs as a truck driver and the janitor. Writing has always been one of his interests and, after watching Star Wars in 1977, He quit his job in intentions of entering the world of film. In 1978 the year he directed, produced, and produced his first short film Xenogenesis, with a friend. He was the Rock and Roll High School production assistant (1979) and also the art director for Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). He was the special effects director for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981), served as production designer for Galaxy of Terror (1981) and also consulted on the design of Android (1982