Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

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.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.