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James Cameron (Film Director)

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.

— James Cameron friends

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

— James Cameron art

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 faith

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.

— James Cameron perfection

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

— James Cameron success

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.

— James Cameron hope

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

— James Cameron world

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

— James Cameron success

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 time

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

— James Cameron story

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 love

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

— James Cameron time

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

— James Cameron people

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

— James Cameron imagination

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 self

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

— James Cameron people

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

— James Cameron love

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 man

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

— James Cameron business

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 war

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

— James Cameron future

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

— James Cameron hope

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.

— James Cameron art

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.

— James Cameron people

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

— James Cameron time

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 youre a director. Everything after that youre just negotiating your budget and your fee.

— James Cameron friends

To convince people to back your idea, youve got to sell it to yourself and know when its the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. Its like surfing. You dont create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

— James Cameron time

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