Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron has expressed support for the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger as thousands of industry elites have rallied in opposition to it.

The Titanic director expressed his thoughts about the issue in an interview with the Associated Press .

“I’m a supporter of it. I know it’s controversial,” he said before hailing Paramount CEO David Ellison as being “the right man for the job to run a major studio.”

“I know David quite well. And I know that he really cares about movies,” Cameron said. “And he’s a natural born storyteller and thinks like almost an old school entrepreneurial producer that was a storyteller that…

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