James Cameron

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

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.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

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 tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength.[From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. Man stood beneath the sky and he asked __hy?_. And his question was beautiful.The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.Perhaps that is the way it has to be.

ROSE: I love you, Jack.JACK: No...don__ say your goodbyes, Rose. Don__ you give up. Don__ do it.ROSE: I__ so cold.JACK: You__e going to get out of this...you__e going to go on and you__e going to make babies and watch them grow and you__e going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here...Not this night. Do you understand me?ROSE: I can__ feel my body.JACK: Rose, listen to me. Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I__ thankful, Rose. I__ thankful. You must do me this honor...promise me you will survive....that you will never give up...not matter what happens...no matter how hopeless...promise me now, and never let go of that promise.ROSE: I promise.JACK: Never let go.ROSE: I promise. I will never let go, Jack. I__l never let go.