James Cameron

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other…

— James Cameron

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and…

— James Cameron

“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will…

— James Cameron

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so…

— James Cameron

“I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have." Kyle Reese in The Terminator”

— James Cameron

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a…

— James Cameron

“The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers,…

— James Cameron

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

— James Cameron

Rose: You're crazy. Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back…

— James Cameron

I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any…

— James Cameron

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people,…

— James Cameron

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it…

— James Cameron

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone…

— James Cameron

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual…

— James Cameron

I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my…

— James Cameron

I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now,…

— James Cameron

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you…

— James Cameron

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is...…

— James Cameron

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

— James Cameron

“I love you Jack. A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. Jack, this is where we first met.”

— james cameron

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

— James Cameron

“Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own…

— James Cameron

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

— James Cameron

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have…

— James Cameron

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were…

— James Cameron

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to…

— James Cameron

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

— James Cameron

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in…

— James Cameron

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.”

— James Cameron

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away…

— James Cameron

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

— James Cameron

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

— James Cameron

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

— James Cameron

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a…

— James Cameron

This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.

— James Cameron

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something…

— James Cameron

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with…

— James Cameron

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than…

— James Cameron

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours.

— James Cameron

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way…

— James Cameron