215 Quotes by James Cameron

This is a vast frontier that’s going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.

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.

Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don’t get it from a specific religious doctrine, you’ll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.

I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I’m kidding. I don’t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver.

When the ship docks, I’m getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn’t make any sense, that’s why I trust it.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water.

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.

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.

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.