At 71, renowned filmmaker James Cameron continues to be enamored with Suzy Amis, his 63-year-old wife and former actress from the blockbuster film Titanic.

Amis portrayed Lizzy Calvert in the modern-day sequences of the iconic film, while Cameron took the helm as director.

On Monday, the couple radiated affection as they embraced and shared laughter on the red carpet at the premiere of Cameron’s latest installment in the Avatar series.

Their romance began in 1997 during the filming of the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet classic, and the two tied the knot in 2000.

Today, they are proud parents of three children: a son, Quinn, 21, and two daughters, Claire, 23, and Elizabeth, 18.

Cameron has another daughter – Josephine, 31 – from his previous marriage to Linda Hamilton, 68. He directed Hamilton in his early blockbuster movie The Terminator from 1984 which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

James Cameron , 71, is still very much in love with one of his actresses from his monster hit film Titanic: 63-year-old Suzy Amis

Amis played Lizzy Calvert in the movie in the modern-day portion of the film while Cameron directed

This comes after Cameron said he thinks the idea of generative AI replacing actors is ‘horrifying’.

The Avatar: Fire and Ash director – who sits on the board of Stability AI – has previously been positive about the use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking but there are limits to how he feels it should be used.

The Oscar-winning moviemaker hailed motion capture the ‘purest form’ of performance and admitted he thinks it was a ‘mistake’ that he was reluctant to ‘pull the curtain back’ on the CGI-assisted technique when working on 2009’s Avatar in order to keep the ‘magic unblemished’ for audiences.

James stressed how different motion capture and AI are in the filmmaking process.

Speaking on CBS Sunday Mornings, he said: ‘For years, there was this sense that, ‘Oh, they’re doing something strange with computers and they’re replacing actors,’ when in fact, once you really drill down and you see what we’re doing, it’s a celebration of the actor-director moment, and the actor-to-actor moment. It’s a celebration of, I call it, the sanctity of the actor’s performance moment.

‘Now, go to the other end of the spectrum, and you’ve got generative AI, where they can make up a character, they can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt.

The movie Titanic, written and directed by Cameron. Seen here from left, three in front row: Nicholas Cascone (in striped shirt) as Bobby Buell, Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett and Amis as Lizzy Calvert

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic

On Monday at the premiere of his new Avatar film, the dynamic duo looked in love as they hugged and laughed on the red carpe

They met in 1997 when filming the movie then wed in year 2000. The pair have three children together. They share one son – Quinn, 21 – and two daughters, Claire, 23, and Elizabeth, 18

‘It’s like, no. That’s horrifying to me. That’s the opposite. That’s exactly what we’re not doing.’

Cameron and Amis at the Directors Guild Awards At The Century Plaza Hotel in the 1990s

The Titanic director insisted he never wants to ‘replace’ actors with technology.

He added: ‘I don’t want a computer doing what I pride myself on being able to do with actors. I don’t want to replace actors, I love working with actors.’

However, James does feel AI has a place in the industry because it could be helpful in ‘making VFX cheaper’.

He said: ‘Right now, imaginative films, fantastic films, science-fiction films — they’re starting to die off as a breed because they’re expensive and the theatrical marketplace has contracted, and now studios are only comfortable spending those kinds of dollar amounts with blue-chip IP, that which we’ve seen, that which we know. I mean, a movie like Avatar would never get made in that environment. That was brand-new IP; nobody had ever heard of it.’

And he doesn’t think generative AI would undermine his work, but rather will make filmmakers push themselves more.

Cameron has another daughter – Josephine, 31 – from his previous marriage to Linda Hamilton, 68. He directed Hamilton in his early blockbuster movie The Terminator from 1984 which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger; seen in November

He said: ‘It might [undermine the work], but it also causes us to have to set our bar to a very disciplined level, and to continue to be out-of-the-box imaginative … what generative AI can’t do is create something new that’s never been seen.

‘If you think about it, the models — it’s a magic trick, what they can do is quite astonishing. But the models are trained on everything that’s ever been done before that; it can’t be trained on that which has never been done.

‘So you will innately see, essentially, all of human art and human experience put into a blender, and you’ll get something that is kind of an average of that.

‘So what you can’t have is that individual screenwriter’s unique lived experience and their quirks. You won’t find the idiosyncrasies of a particular actor…

‘The act of performance, the act of actually seeing an artist creating in real time will become sacred, more so.’