James Cameron Quotes

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• Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it.…
• There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make…
• I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the…
• I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice…
• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and…
• The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
• Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
• I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
• If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
• My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
• People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next…
• There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
• I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy…
• Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In…
• I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the…
• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few…
• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an…
• So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world…
• The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that…

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