James Cameron Quotes

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• I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
• Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of…
• What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
• It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to…
• You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they`ll be much more qualified than you and cause…
• The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
• With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John…
• I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover…
• So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and…
• 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.
• I don't look at scripts. I just write them.
• I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept…
• I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or…
• I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the -…
• I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a…
• I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the…
• If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing.…
• Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.
• It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a…
• All my films are love stories,

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