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James Cameron says that although he almost directed Jurassic Park, the best man won and Steven Spielberg was the right person to helm the family-friendly classic.
"He was the right guy to make it," Cameron said in a new interview with Empire magazine. "Not me, because I would have made it too terrifying and R-rated. It would have been Aliens with dinosaurs."
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