215 Quotes by James Cameron

Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that’s a cinematic arc.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They’re going to be personal and they’re going to take a lot of my energy. I’m not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn’t interest me.

I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We’ll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

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

I don’t just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.

I don’t look at scripts. I just write them.

Jack: Rose! You’re so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You’re so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why? Rose: You jump, I jump, right? Jack: Right. Rose: Oh God! I couldn’t go. I couldn’t go, Jack. Jack: It’s all right. We’ll think of something. Rose: At least I’m with you.

You’re so stupid, Rose! – Jack Dawson.