Your only competitors are your past achievements.

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.

Beware the wounded lioness, for she is a natural hunter.

Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy and the make the most of where you are.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I don't accept the term 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people.

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.