James Cameron Quotes

If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

You're so stupid, Rose!

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.

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

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

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 fact, it almost certainly will.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

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.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

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 ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

I'm King Of The World!!!

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

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 established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

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 Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.

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?

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

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

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

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

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