James Cameron Quotes

James Cameron (26)

Birth:	16th August, 1954
Nationality:	Canadian, Congolese
Profession:	Director, Editor, Environmentalist, Explorer, Producer, Screenwriter

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• There is a hugely underserved population out there… those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

  James Cameron

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  Tags in Population, Hugely, Capable, Paying, Capacity

• 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

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  Tags in People, Animal

• 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

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  Tags in Brooding, Magic

• 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

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  Tags in Narrative, Literary

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Film, Plunge, Childless, Making

• My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

  James Cameron

  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Parent, Housewife

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Escapism, Fantasy

• I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the – you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

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  Tags in Town, Falls

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

  James Cameron

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  Tags in Travel

• 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.

  James Cameron

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  Tags in Unwilling, Leap

• The magic doesn’t come from within the director’s mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

  James Cameron

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• The film industry is about saying ‘no’ to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer.

  James Cameron

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  Tags in Industry, Film, People

• I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

  James Cameron

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Props, Opportunities

• 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

  Topics in Gift

• You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

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• You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they’ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

  James Cameron

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Qualified

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

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  Tags in Alien

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

  James Cameron

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