James Cameron Quotes
18 quotes from James Cameron — Film director behind Terminator, Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar — the two highest-grossing films in history..
“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.”
“The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.”
“The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world.”
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”
“Failure is an option, fear is not.”
“I am king of the world!”
“Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.”
“Your imagination can create a reality.”
“Your only competitors are your past achievements.”
“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.”
“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.”
“He starts almost talking like a psychiatrist, and telling me the reasons why I'm not interested in it, because I come from an Austrian background, and maybe someone would give me less dialogue because I'm not as understandable. But, he says, 'Don't worry about the amount of dialogue. It will be one of the most memorable characters of the year, maybe even of the decade.'”
“We were branded as the biggest idiots in movie history. They were just sharpening their knives so they could really take the film apart. Then they couldn't. So, fuck them. Fuck 'em all.”
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.”
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you. Failure has to be an option in art and exploration because it's a leap of faith. In whatever you're doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.”
“I personally love the close work with the actors when we're trying to break a scene, when we're trying to figure out the heart of a scene. I may have written it a year earlier, but the real creative work is that day, when you're going to shoot that scene. I love that we find that magic that was not obvious on the page.”
“Even though visual effects are not what we use now—there's no film, or glass painting—the basics of storytelling don't change.”
“One could argue that the machines have already won. All you have to do is look around at how many people are face-down texting 100% of the time, everywhere they are, and it's hard to imagine the machines haven't won.”
