James Cameron on Obtaining Underwater Footage of the Titanic

James Cameron: Well we photographed the ship. We did what we planned to do. We tried to get the haunting provocative image of it. The thing that we didn’t expect to do which we ended up doing was that we sent our robot camera inside the ship and photographed things that people hadn’t seen since the ship sank. The kind of ghostly remains of that luxury, the chandeliers and the hand carved wall paneling and the swinging door that you would have come through as you went into the beautiful reception area. They were all still there just kind of down in blackness. That was the most exciting and most emotional part of the whole expedition.