Top 100 Quotes About James Cameron
#1. The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.
Neill Blomkamp
#2. The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.
Peter Capaldi
#3. When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.
Eric Braeden
#4. Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.
Ron Currie Jr.
#5. Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.'
Seth Shostak
#6. I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
Sylvia Earle
#7. When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Kathryn Bigelow
#8. I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.
Timothy Miller
#9. 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.
James Cameron
#10. James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Roger Ebert
#11. I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.
Ridley Scott
#12. In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
Gary Shteyngart
#13. James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
Joe Morton
#14. My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#16. Trusted you ...
Jake Sully: continuing what he was saying - with you.
Neytiri: getting upset I trusted you
Jake Sully: trying to calm her Trust me now. Please.
Neytiri: You will never be one of The People
James Cameron
#17. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...
James Cameron
#18. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.
James Cameron
#20. What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
James Cameron
#21. Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become ... helpless, impotent, and weak.
James Cameron
#22. 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 in the sense of pure escapism.
James Cameron
#23. I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.
James Cameron
#24. Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me ... in every way that a person can be saved
James Cameron
#25. The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
James Cameron
#26. 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 thing.
James Cameron
#27. I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.
James Cameron
#28. 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 leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place.
James Cameron
#29. The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.
James Cameron
#30. You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk in the world of the future, the world ahead of us, the world of our children, not eating a plant-based diet.
James Cameron
#31. 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.
James Cameron
#32. Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.
James Cameron
#33. The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water
James Cameron
#34. 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 not stop! ... ever ... until you are dead!
James Cameron
#35. 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 our five senses?
James Cameron
#36. Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.
James Cameron
#37. 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 people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.
James Cameron
#38. Collin seemed wholly unfazed by Cameron's appearance. Jack kept one eye carefully trained on him, thinking things had better stay that way. Gay or not, best friend or not, no one with a dick was getting within a foot of Cameron while she wore that dress.
Julie James
#39. It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
James Cameron
#40. 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 the leap of faith.
James Cameron
#42. 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. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
James Cameron
#43. 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 used to be.
James Cameron
#45. Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
James Cameron
#47. You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.
James Cameron
#48. The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.
James Cameron
#50. To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.
James Cameron
#51. You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
James Cameron
#52. I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
James Cameron
#53. Where is Wilkins, anyway?" Cameron asked.
"In the living room, being accosted by eighteen women who think he's a stripper. I thought it was best to duck in here."
"So much for never leaving a man behind."
"If he starts screaming, I'll lay down a cover fire and go pull him out.
Julie James
#54. Your only competitors are your past achievements.
James Cameron
#56. I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
James Cameron
#57. Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.
James Cameron
#58. This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.
James Cameron
#59. There is a hugely underserved population out there ... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
James Cameron
#60. There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,
James Cameron
#61. Max Guevara: Girls kick ass; says so on a t-shirt.
James Cameron
#62. Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
James Cameron
#63. 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
#64. Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.
James Cameron
#65. I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.
James Cameron
#66. 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, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.
James Cameron
#67. Cameron looked up at the ceiling, biting her tongue. Of all the murder and she-had-no-friggin'-clue-what-else-but-something-that-apparently-involved-the-FBI crime scenes in all the hotels in all of Chicago, Jack Pallas had to walk into this one.
Julie James
#68. The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct,
James Cameron
#69. People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.
James Cameron
#71. When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.
James Cameron
#72. The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
James Cameron
#73. Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.
James Cameron
#74. Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.
James Cameron
#75. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.
James Cameron
#76. I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f
ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.
James Cameron
#77. 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 story they haven't heard before.
James Cameron
#78. I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
James Cameron
#79. Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.
James Cameron
#80. I love you Jack.
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Jack, this is where we first met.
James Cameron
#81. 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
#82. When you have the feeling that anything's possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.
James Cameron
#83. Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
James Cameron
#84. Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes,
James Cameron
#85. 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 you to sort of doubt yourself.
James Cameron
#86. I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
James Rosenquist
#88. Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term
James Cameron
#89. Jack turned to Cameron. Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?
Julie James
#90. 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 if you were good in football.
James Cameron
#91. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
James Cameron
#92. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?
James Cameron
#93. Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.
James Cameron
#94. But she was decidedly immune to any of his so-called sexual char
wow, he smelled fantastic.
Julie James
#95. I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have. Kyle Reese in The Terminator
James Cameron
#96. 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. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
James Cameron
#97. Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
James Cameron
#98. I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.
Judd Apatow
#99. The thought sent chills running down her spine.
Or, Cameron supposed, maybe the chill had something to do with the fact that she was still standing in the air-conditioned hallway wearing nothing but her T-shirt and underwear.
Classy.
Julie James
#100. It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.
James Cameron
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