Filmmaker and recent Canadian of the Week James Cameron, who is making the press rounds to promote his new movie “Avatar,” said he’s done with the “Terminator” franchise he founded, and he thinks most people are, as well.

“I’ve moved on creatively from The Terminator, so I’m not really interested in that imagery and even those ideas anymore — and I’m not sure the world is that interested either,” he said in a story posted by the Edmonton Sun. “It’s run its course, I feel.”

Cameron added that his biggest regret was having sold the rights to the story in exchange for the chance to direct the original “Terminator” movie.

“If I had a little time machine and I could only send back something the length of a tweet,” he said, “it’d be — ‘Don’t sell.’”

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