Author details
All James Cameron Quotes
I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.
James Cameron
62% of people like this quote
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
James Cameron
58% of people like this quote
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
James Cameron
55% of people like this quote
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
James Cameron
55% of people like this quote
There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
James Cameron
53% of people like this quote
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
James Cameron
53% of people like this quote
It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.
James Cameron
53% of people like this quote
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
James Cameron
53% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
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.
James Cameron
53% of people like this quote
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.
James Cameron
52% of people like this quote
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.
James Cameron
50% of people like this quote
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
James Cameron
50% of people like this quote
I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
James Cameron
49% of people like this quote
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
James Cameron
48% of people like this quote
Related authors