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.

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

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

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.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

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.

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

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

Your imagination can create a reality

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

Blessed be the ones that are free that have detached from possessions that can possess Thee.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.